{"id":5005,"date":"2013-10-18T17:41:31","date_gmt":"2013-10-18T21:41:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=5005"},"modified":"2013-10-18T17:41:50","modified_gmt":"2013-10-18T21:41:50","slug":"tim-lincecum-will-not-re-sign-prior-to-free-agency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2013\/10\/18\/tim-lincecum-will-not-re-sign-prior-to-free-agency\/","title":{"rendered":"Tim Lincecum will not re-sign prior to free agency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5007\" alt=\"timlincecum\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/10\/timlincecum.jpg\" width=\"594\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/10\/timlincecum.jpg 594w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/10\/timlincecum-300x212.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If Tim Lincecum re-signs with the San Francisco Giants it is unlikely to happen prior to the start of free agency.<\/p>\n<p>The Giants have made attempts to re-sign the former NL Cy Young Award winner but those attempts have been pushed back by Lincecum&#8217;s camp because the right hander wants to test the open market reports <a href=\"http:\/\/www.csnbayarea.com\/giants\/sources-lincecum-test-free-agency-market\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">CSN Bay Area<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In 65 starts over the last two seasons Lincecum has a 20-29 record with a 4.76 RA and a 1.39 WHIP.<\/p>\n<p>Reports in the past have linked Lincecum to his hometown Seattle Mariners.<\/p>\n<p>Lincecum can become a free agent five days after the World Series ends. The Giants are expected to give him a qualifying offer (expected to be $14 million) which will net them draft picks should he sign elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p>Thus far its too early to make any predictions about where Lincecum will pitch in 2014.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If Tim Lincecum re-signs with the San Francisco Giants it is unlikely to happen prior to the start of free agency. The Giants have made attempts to re-sign the former NL Cy Young Award winner but those attempts have been pushed back by Lincecum&#8217;s camp because the right hander wants to test the open market [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5007,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[503,501,139,14],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-5005","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-front","9":"tag-mlb","10":"tag-san-francisco-giants","11":"tag-tim-lincecum"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5005\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5005"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=5005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}