by Jermey Kahn

SAN FRANCISCO–We all know San Francisco Giant pitcher Tim Lincecum’s stats and his resume and he’s a two time Cy Young Award winner he’s been with the team for all three World Series championships starting in 2010 and he’s struggled a little bit in the last couple of seasons but no worries he’s going to be back.

He’s Lincecum anything can happen and you know how this game rolls and it happens a lot and the Freak, the Franchise will be back this season and we’ll see how Timmy works the plate. He went back to his father Chris whose helping him out again with his pitching skills after whatever was happening the last two seasons wasn’t working.

Lincecum played once in the post season after the Giants won that third championship last season, so this is a really smart decision of Lincecum getting back with his dad. Also he’s getting help from Giants pitching coach Dave Righetti who is the best pitching in MLB bar none.

The pitch clock has been used in different levels of baseball and with this new rule about the pitch clock I’ve seen this happen and it happens all the time and it’s really good that MLB is really doing this. Madison Baumgarner who gave up four runs in 1.2 innings in Tuesday’s game against the Oakland A’s, it’s his first time since he’s pitched since October my gosh and it’s spring training and the game doesn’t count.

Wait until April for that first game in Arizona we’ll see what the Mad Bum will bring to the game then when it counts. He’s been in camp for two weeks, my God if people get mad about a spring training game on March 3rd there’s problems here. There is a pitch clock and you have 20 seconds to throw, the pitchers are not rushing or shouldn’t be under any pressure it could change the game but we’ll see but for right now who knows.

The move to have Nori Aoki to lead off and move Angel Pagan to the third hole will be a good move for the Giants having Aoki in the top of the order and the Pagan hitting third, Buster Posey fourth, followed by Joe Panik, Hunter Pence and Brandon Belt. That’s a good one through six in the line up right there. That can be a very dangerous one through six when the season starts again in April.

Jeremy Kahn is a San Francisco Giants beat reporter for http://www.sportsradioservice.com join him on the podcast below