No player in the last 10 years has fallen off harder than Tim Lincecum

[Remote]

In the 4 seasons from 2008 to 2011, Tim Lincecum averaged:

220 innings
180 hits allowed
244 strikeouts
2.81 ERA

He went 62-36 and won 2 Cy Youngs in that time. He was 27.

Since then he's gone 41-48 with a 4.94 ERA (last playing for the Angels)

Giants fans, it must have been so rough seeing him and Matt Cain fall apart in these last few years.


Relive the glory brehs...

 

[BXKingPin82]

Matt Harvey next up on that Summer Jam Screen

 

[FaTaL]

Dissapoint

• FaTaL
• Apr 16, 2016
• 5

 

[puggle]

He's actually been home since the start of the season, no one's picked him up after getting released last year. Yeah I agree it's a tremendous dropoff.

 

[HHR]

This has been your regular reminder that pitching requires repeating an extremely unnatural motion which puts violent stress on the throwers arm.

Pitchers. Get. Hurt.

 

[Remote]

This has been your regular reminder that pitching requires repeating an extremely unnatural motion which puts violent stress on the throwers arm.

Pitchers. Get. Hurt.

Absolutely.

And pitch counts don't save anyone.
They never have.
They never will.

 

[madness]

it's amazing what he was able to accomplish considering he's under 6-foot and 170 lbs soaking wet

 

[BucciMane]

It's tough to top him for this scenario as he may have been the one I'd have said fell off the hardest as well, but here's another.

 

[Rosecrans]

Stay Off the Weeeeeeeeeed

 

[Liquid]

People were starting to call him White Pedro.

He was one of my favorite pitchers to watch when he was on. How hard he was throwing was incredible.

This commercial

 

[Ron Mexico]

If we're talking about all athletes it's Tiger Woods.

Went from being talked about as possibly the GOAT in his sport to being completely irrelevant now. It gets even worse when you think about all the stuff from his personal life being exposed.

 

[the cool]

It's tough to top him for this scenario as he may have been the one I'd have said fell off the hardest as well, but here's another.

he got caught using steroids HGH. once he stopped taking them he couldn't perform anymore. he didn't fall off, he was just cheating

 

[Liquid]

Matt Harvey next up on that Summer Jam Screen

 

[BXKingPin82]

You see the way he be looking in the dugout?
Like hes depressed or some shyt
I hope he aint going thru like that

 

[HHR]

Absolutely.

And pitch counts don't save anyone.
They never have.
They never will.

That's not entirely true. Pitch counts absolutely save pitchers. It's just that it's impossible to know each pitchers magic number on any given night. But the danger of overuse is undeniable.