Lincecum on Lincecum

David Laurila lets Tim Lincecum talk about his development and learning to pitch with a repaired hip:

“I’m going back to trusting my hip, trusting myself within a game atmosphere, and knowing I’m going to find that groove again. That’s with my old mechanics, the ones I had before I started to kind of falter because of the degenerative hip.

“The mechanics I’ve resorted to the last few years have been my body trying to find the easy way out. Because things were going backwards from the standpoint of my hip, I was taking a shorter, more abbreviated, kind of delivery. That’s basically when my stuff slowed down. I don’t want to take the easy way out. I want to take the better way out, and for me that’s the right mechanics and developing a lot of torque, using my whole body.

“I also have to pitch smarter, but that’s what goes into being a veteran pitcher. I think that would happen even if I still had my best stuff. Having a plan is what being a veteran starter and elongating your career is all about. Hitters have a plan against a pitcher — they know what you want to do — and it always goes back to ‘There’s no one right way to pitch a game.’ It’s always a chess game.”

Lincecum is interesting throughout the story.

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