SAN FRANCISCO, CA — Emergency medical staff and hospital personnel throughout the Bay Area are on high alert after news broke Tuesday that Tim Lincecum would be receiving the 2008 National League Cy Young Award. Visit SSNN on Facebook Follow SSNN on Twitter “Holy crap, you think ...

Closer Brad Lidge came in fourth in the Cy Young Award race in 2008. He received 1 second place vote and 7 third place votes for a total of 10 points. While I agree with Tim Lincecum winning the award and Brandon Webb coming in second, I take exception to a reliever with a perfect record coming ...

  Justice was served on Tuesday afternoon as Tim Lincecum was crowned the National League's 2008 Cy Young award winner.  This, a title he deserved. Often, the "voters" tend to lean towards the pitchers who have received the most wins.  While 20+ wins is impressive, it ...

Sabathia? Santana? Lidge? Webb? Nah ... Tim Lincecum nabbed the 2008 NL Cy Young Award , the first Giant to do so since Mike McCormick in 1967. So ... the "real" voters agreed with Baseball Prospectus. Good decision? And a bonus challenge question ... ... without looking him up somewhere, tell ...

Tim Lincecum, the 24-year old San Francisco Giants' ace, was voted the 2008 N.L. Cy Young Award winner . "Lincecum received 23 of 32 first-place votes and 137 points in balloting by the Baseball Writers' Association of America. Brandon Webb of the Arizona Diamondbacks got four first-place ...

Giants pitcher Tim Lincecum has won the 2008 NL CY Young Award. Arizona’s Brandon Webb finished second, and Mets ace Johan Santana finished 3rd. Lincecum, 22, was the 10th pick overall in the 2006 amateur draft. He was 18-5 with a 2.62 ERA in 2008. He struck out a career high 265 ...

San Francisco Giants second year pitcher Tim Lincecum is this year's winner of the National League CY Young Award . Lincecum finished the regular season with an 18-5 record to go along with a 2.62 ERA and a league best 265 strikeouts. The 24-yr old, who looks no more than 14, is just the ...

As reported in a SFGiants.com e-mail to me, Tim Lincecum has won the 2008 Cy Young Award. He is the second Giant to receive the award, the first being Mike McCormick. He is also the first second year player to win the award since both Dwight Gooden and Bret Saberhagen won in 1985 in their ...

Tim Lincecum wins the 2008 National League Cy-Young.  Lincecum was dominant (18-5) for a bad Giants team, however, and he did have 265 strikeouts 2008 NL Cy Young Award Voting Pitcher, Club.........................1st.......2nd...3rd.......Points Tim Lincecum, ...

Tim Lincecum won the 2008 NL Cy Young award today, receiving 23 out of 32 possible 1st place votes. Linceum also received 7 second place votes and 1 third place vote. One voter left him of their ballot altogether, which is an atrocity. Lincecum finished the season 18-5 for the San Francisco ...

by Josh Alper Now 57 games into his big league career, Tim Lincecum has officially arrived. The Giants right-hander ran away with the National League Cy Young award , garnering 23 of 32 first-place votes, to become the second San Franciscan so honored. It is quite difficult to argue with the ...

Your National League Cy Young Award Winner for 2008 is Valerio de los Santos. (Just kidding, it's Tim Lincecum.) [ MLB.com ]

You may be wondering who this puny shirtless nerd is heading this post. Is it homage to some undiscovered high school phenom? Is it Doc at a young and reckless age? Is it AK during his marching band days? Nope - it's your 2008 National League Cy Young Award Winner, Tim Lincecum. Doesn't this ...

Tim Lincecum won the NL Cy Young Award . Perhaps the most dominant pitcher in the National League in 2008, the kid led the league in strikeouts with 265 and trailed only Johan Santana in ERA. Lincecum is just the second Giant to win the award, joining 1967 winner Mike McCormick. Brandon ...

Like the National League Gold Glove winners , the American League Gold Glove winners feature a lot of young faces. Apparently, the best fielders in 2008 were young players who had never won this award before. Here is a look at the 2008 AL Gold Glove award winners: Pitcher - Mike Mussina , New ...

MLB.com has announced the 2008 AL Golden Glove award winners: American League P, Mike Mussina, NYY C, Joe Mauer, MIN 1B, Carlos Pena, TB 2B, Dustin Pedroia, BOS 3B, Adrian Beltre, SEA SS, Michael Young, TEX OF, Torii Hunter, LAA OF, Grady Sizemore, CLE OF, Ichiro Suzuki, ...

Chris Haft of sfgiants.com compiled the opinions of a number of media members who opined on who should win the Cy Young Award. Obviously, I think The Kid, Tim Lincecum, deserves the award for leading in so many categories, but I had to comment on a few of the media statements, that, to me, ...