According to reports from a respected baseball columnist, Tracy Ringolsby, of the Rocky Mountain News, the Giants are contemplating trading Lincecum, for the right package. Then again, a lot of respected baseball columnists have, at one time or another, been the conduit of false information and outright rumor.
Let me say right now that if either Cain or Lincecum are traded, the Giants management are out of their heads and have no imagination, nor vision of the future. And I will have to grudgingly join those who have been calling for either Sabean's or Magowan's (or both) head.
The future of the Giants is Cain and Lincecum. They are THE HOPE that will sustain us through this cold spell of constant losing. Pitching is the Giants forte and looks to only get better. As I have shown before, studies have shown that having strong pitching and defense is the only way to improve our chances to win the World Series.
Ideally, I hate to say this, but we need to become like the D-gers of the 60's, with Maury Wills generating a lot of runs and Willie Davis driving in a lot of runs, and a pitching staff headed by Koufax and Drysdale, their co-aces. We have a pair like that now, with Cain and Lincecum, so the Giants just need to keep them healthy and on our team.
It does not take a lot of offense to make our good pitching winners. And if the Giants can become adept at manufacturing runs, we will start to win more than our share of games, and not lose more than our share. And I think our position prospects can be average, can be productive, can fill a lot of holes in our lineup: Ortmeier, Frandsen, Lewis, Davis, and Schierholtz.
Just say no to trading Lincecum: no matter who we get, it will be second-guessed forever and would just break up one of the key strengths of the team, which is having him and Cain at the top of the Giants rotation. In addition, Giants management would probably lose the few voices who are still standing behind it.
The good news is that no matter how respected the writer is, he can get it wrong, either on his end or on their end. Communication is a two way street. Sometimes teams float an idea out as a rumor and gauge public reaction.
However, the reaction shows the Giants would be ill-advised to push or pursue a trade of their future. Pitchers like that don't come around very often, one would have to be an "idiot" to trade him away. Lincecum MUST stay a SF Giants.
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