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Lincecum talks hip injury on eve of showcase
- Updated: May 5, 2016
8:51 AM ET
On the eve of showcasing his talents for major league teams, Tim Lincecum spoke for the first time since last season and said that a hip injury led to the struggles that derailed his career.
The two-time NL Cy Young Award winner will pitch for 20 or more representatives of teams on Friday as he tries to demonstrate that he’s recovered from last season’s hip surgery.
“Pretty rough, to be honest with you,” Lincecum said of last year to Yahoo! Sports, “because I didn’t know which days were gonna be the good days and which were gonna be the bad ones. Some days my hip would bite at me. Some days it would be fine. But I didn’t have a lot of stability and strength in it. I wasn’t able to sustain the end of my motion, when my foot hit. It felt very erratic, very wild. It didn’t feel like much of a drive. It felt like I was jumping. That’s where I lost it all. The power was lost in my legs, and it didn’t drive through my hips, my mid-back and up into my shoulder. I was throwing a lot with my arm.”
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