tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23735245.post3040422759026211110..comments2024-02-23T20:49:09.057-08:00Comments on obsessivegiantscompulsive: Your 2015 Giants: Thoughts on Lincecumobsessivegiantscompulsivehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11362706004246875823noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23735245.post-78211531544189998032015-07-23T08:20:35.180-07:002015-07-23T08:20:35.180-07:00I agree that there is not a lot of information reg...I agree that there is not a lot of information regarding this condition right now. Tim has decided not to share that information, as is his right to do, and now people are in the dark and don't know what to think. As some Giants fans do, they go for the worse case scenario.<br /><br />Thanks for sharing possible ways he could be fixed up. I'm no doctor.<br /><br />I don't think I said anything about this being the end of his career, but in any case, I'm not saying that this ends his career as a major league pitcher.<br /><br />However, it clearly can be the end of his Giants career, as there are not that many spots on our pitching staff open, and with his numbers, he could end up not being on Your 2016 Giants team. For that's the key words, "successful career", he hasn't been all that successful in the public's eye since 2012 now. That's four seasons. And we got a lot of pitchers pushing up, as I've been writing about for 7-8 years now, the pitching cream rises and pushes out the not as productive. And he's getting near the edge of being pushed out.<br /><br />And with his bad numbers, he won't necessarily be on any other team's radar either, even his hometown Mariners, his best chances might lie with the Giants, who know him and love him. <br /><br />I think being a team's spot starter is Lincecum's best case scenario right now, and I don't know if he has the appetite and will (not that I know him at all; but after making nearly $100M lifetime, the push might not be there to take the hard road) to sign a minor league contract in order to play next season, nor even one of those $1M MLB deals that fringe players sign. <br /><br />But I wanted to wish him well, no matter what, and to point out that it wasn't all bad the past couple of years, and hopefully the Giants see that too and keep him around, he might not be able to take the mound for 32 starts anymore, let alone be our ace, but he could still be useful in a bullpen role, I think, as it wasn't all bad when he was pitching.obsessivegiantscompulsivehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11362706004246875823noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23735245.post-14728639702632320392015-07-22T22:07:06.396-07:002015-07-22T22:07:06.396-07:00I guess a medical decision will have to be made at...I guess a medical decision will have to be made at some point, but I think everyone is jumping to conclusions unless his MRI was much worse than they are telling us. Today there are plenty of successful treatments for degenerative disease, including stem cells, and hyaluronidase. Timmy is supposedly getting cortisone shots, probably more like betamethasone or triamcinolone, but these are not the usual treatments for degenerative disease. These are treatments for inflammatory disease. I do not want to jump to any conclusions, and I am not sure that this is anything close to the end of his career unless he chooses so. Many major league players have some degeneration of various joints, and still have successful careers. nomisnalahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08297640472949764321noreply@blogger.com