Giants ace Tim Lincecum in camp after $23M deal
Tim Lincecum might have thought he was on a mound last Friday, not outside a St. Petersburg arbitration hearing room. "My adrenaline kicked in a little bit, just because of what I was going through. Nerves. Butterflies. All the excitement. Tiredness," Lincecum said Thursday of the emotions he felt in the hours before his arbitration hearing was to begin.
As it almost always does when Lincecum is wired up, things worked out just fine. Lincecum avoided an arbitration hearing at literally the last hour, when he and the Giants agreed to a two-year, $23 million contract. He will make $8 million this season and $13 million in 2011, with a $2 million bonus to be split between the two seasons.
"I'm completely happy with what happened," said Lincecum, the two-time defending NL Cy Young Award winner. "I don't know the significance that much. The bump in pay … I don't know how to put it into words."Lincecum's contract was the richest signed by a first-year arbitration-eligible player, exceeding the $6.25 million contract Boston closer Jonathan Papelbon signed last January to avoid arbitration.
Lincecum, 25, also has a chance to earn $2.05 million in bonuses over the next two years, including $500,000 for winning a Cy Young Award and $100,000 for making an All-Star team.
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