Hot damn, it’s baseball time – well, sorta. It’s not the crispy green grass and overcooked hot dogs of Opening Day, but, it’s getting there. Maybe it was getting there a little too much for Giants outfield prospect Thomas Neal. Neal, a highly regarded Giants prospect stood in against Mariners right-hander Ricky Orta in the [...]

Andrew Baggarly of the San Jose Mercury News believes Freddy Sanchez (knee, shoulder) will begin the 2010 season on the disabled list – something we’ve all expected even though the Giants refused to admit it.
Freddy isn’t expected to pick up a bat for at least another week and the Giants certainly don’t want [...]

Well hop skippity and jump, we’ve got excellent news coming in this Friday morning – Tim Lincecum and the San Francisco Giants have avoided arbitration (as many suspected) and agreed to a two year deal worth about 23 million dollars.
The deal breaks down like this: $8 million in 2010, $13 million in 2011 and a [...]

With hopes of avoiding a arbitration case, a major league source tells John Shea of the San Francisco Chronicle that the Giants have offered Tim Lincecum a three-year, $37 million contract.
The proposed contract would includes annual salaries of $9.5 million, $12.5 million and $15 million, according to the report. Shea writes that [...]

It appears that Tiny Tim and the Giants are going to be going to arbiration as the two sides could not come to an agreement on his salary. Lincecum never budged from his requested 13 million dollar salary and the Giants never budged from their 8 million dollar offer. It’s a shame the two couldn’t [...]