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- Updated: May 4, 2016
CINCINNATI — Giants manager Bruce Bochy acknowledged the club’s interest in re-signing Tim Lincecum but wouldn’t commit to guaranteeing the popular right-hander a spot in the starting rotation, which the Cy Young Award winner is assumed to seek.
Lincecum will throw for interested teams Friday at Scottsdale Stadium, the Giants’ Spring Training home. San Francisco will have a scout or representative present to watch Lincecum, who has spent his entire 10-year professional career with the Giants since they drafted him in the first round in 2006. Lincecum officially became a free agent last offseason after undergoing arthroscopic hip surgery in September.
Bochy said he didn’t discuss potential roles on the pitching staff with Lincecum when the pitcher made a pair of clandestine visits to Scottsdale Stadium during training camp. But Bochy sensed what Lincecum wants.
“His preference is to start,” Bochy said Wednesday. “Always has been. So I …
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