Tim Lincecum won’t be making a major league comeback with the Texas Rangers, who had signed the two-time NL Cy Young winner during spring training with plans for him to be a reliever.
After putting on his second pitching showcase earlier this month, it was reported that Tim Lincecum has received heavy interest from several major league teams, including the Los Angeles Dodgers.
Sixty games into the 2017 regular season, not much has gone according to plan for a San Francisco Giants team that finds itself 13 games out of first place, and 11 games back in the National League wild card hunt.
But for as troubling of a season as the Giants have suffered through, new reliever Sam Dyson has had it worse.
The San Francisco Giants could become sellers by Major League Baseball’s trade deadline, but on Tuesday evening, the franchise entered the market as buyers. The organization added to its bullpen depth by trading for Texas Rangers’ right-hander Sam Dyson, a sixth-year veteran struggling through the worst season of his professional career.
NEW YORK (AP) The Yankees stepped up their rebuilding Monday, trading outfielder Carlos Beltran to the AL West-leading Texas Rangers for right-hander Dillon Tate, the fourth overall pick in the 2015 amateur draft, and two other pitching prospects. Texas also sent the Yankees right-handers Nick Green and Erik Swanson, both selected in the 2014 draft. […]