It's Bye Bye Baby » MLB Network http://www.itsbyebyebaby.com What happens when the Giants come to town! Thu, 23 Jul 2009 06:55:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.1 en hourly 1 Tim Lincecum on Pitching Mechanics http://www.itsbyebyebaby.com/2009/01/10/tim-lincecum-on-pitching-mechanics/ http://www.itsbyebyebaby.com/2009/01/10/tim-lincecum-on-pitching-mechanics/#comments Sat, 10 Jan 2009 15:18:47 +0000 Hank http://www.itsbyebyebaby.com/?p=82 Tim Lincecum follow-up interview at the MLB Network studios, this time focusing on his mechanics. He breaks down his approach and his motion, and offers some insights on how he can get such velocity from such a small body. I’m no pitching coach, so I’ll just let the video speak for itself.

Tim Lincecum’s Mechanics

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On the offseason: “It’s been quite a whirlwind, a roller coaster ride, but a fun one.”

On hearing that he’d won the Cy Young: “like, woo hoo.. but a lot louder when I said it… more than that”

On his hometown team: “I wasn’t the biggest Mariners fan…but i followed them when I could…I was just a fan of baseball in general”

There was no major league pitcher he idolized while growing up, the only one he looked up to was just his good ol’ dad.

As a high school freshman, he was 4′ 11″, about 85 pounds. By the time he had graduated he had sprouted to an amazing 5′ 8ish”, 120-130 lbs. (He’s now 5′ 11″, close to 6 feet)

Giants fans can breathe easy, #55 was not for Orel Hershiser. There was no significance to the number, it was just randomly assigned when he was called up.

A little talk about what he had to do with motion capture for MLB 2K9, where he looked like “a black Christmas tree”

Tim’s dad: “ice is good for two things: injuries and drinks”.

Harold Reynolds tried to get him to do a Family Guy impersonation, but he sidestepped around it.

All in all, he was his usual quiet, laid back, deadpan self as you’ve probably seen in many a Giants interview.

Watch the complete interview

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