It’s Act II, and The Freak’s not throwing away his shot

It’s Tim Lincecum’s show, and it’s finally time for him to get back onstage. And it’s all about timing — perfect timing, in Lincecum’s case.

The two-time National League Cy Young Award winner is planning a workout at Scottsdale Stadium, the spring home of his longtime team, the San Francisco Giants, on Friday. Scouts from at least 11 Major League teams will be in attendance to see if the right-hander known as The Freak during his prime still has what it takes to compete at the big league level.

Odds are that Lincecum does. If he didn’t, rest assured there would be no workout on Friday afternoon.

Lincecum and his advisers get it. They know he may have been competitive the past five years, but he wasn’t that Cy Young-caliber pitcher — who, in addition to winning the award twice, finished in the top 10 in the voting two other years.

They know that Lincecum’s season ended prematurely last year on June 27 because of physical problems that led to hip surgery in October.

And they know the time is right to find a pitching-hungry contender that is willing to take a shot on a rejuvenated Lincecum.

Each day, the number of possibilities increases, as the reality that what a team has now isn’t what it hoped for in the spring is sinking in. Lincecum and his advisers knew he’d have a more receptive audience once the season started and holes that teams had hoped to have filled in the offseason became in-season concerns.

That’s why late in Spring Training, when reports surfaced that Lincecum would audition for scouts, the workout was scuttled as he was not fully recovered from that hip surgery.

And that’s why Lincecum has continued to work out in Scottsdale at the Giants’ …

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