Tim Lincecum NL Cy Young – The Scores Report – The National Sports Blog https://www.scoresreport.com The National Sports Blog Tue, 11 Nov 2008 19:55:44 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.3.8 Tim Lincecum wins NL Cy Young https://www.scoresreport.com/2008/11/11/tim-lincecum-wins-nl-cy-young/ Tue, 11 Nov 2008 19:55:04 +0000 https://www.scoresreport.com/?p=9123 San Francisco Giants’ 24-year old starter Tim Lincecum won the National League Cy Young award on Tuesday.

Tim LincecumThe slender kid with the whirling windup on Tuesday joined Mike McCormick (1967) as the only San Francisco Giants pitchers to win a Cy Young.

Lincecum received 23 of 32 first-place votes and 137 points in balloting by the Baseball Writers’ Association of America. Brandon Webb of the Arizona Diamondbacks got four first-place votes and finished second with 73 points.

Well deserved. Nothing against Brandon Webb, but Lincecum was the most dynamic pitcher in the NL this season. Despite pitching for one of the worst lineups in all of baseball, “The Franchise” still found a way to go 18-5 with a 2.62 ERA. Had the Giants had any amount of offense, he would have easily won 20-plus games. I had him ranked No. 3 in my “Best Young Guns Vol. II” article.

Ironically, the Giants were looking to trade Lincecum in the offseason. GM Brian Sabean (who amazingly still has a job despite several trade gaffs) almost dealt his future ace to the Toronto Blue Jays for Alex Rios.

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