"Tim Lincecum said the two-year contract he reached with the Giants is where he and the team "found the most common ground" and he fully expects future conversations about a longer term contract that would buy out his free-agent years.

Lincecum ended last season at 187 pounds and shockingly, got up to 197 in November, which is double-chin territory. So he scrawled that number on a white board and recorded daily weigh-ins while challenged himself to drop 25 pounds. He did it by swimming every day in a current pool, doing the frog stroke. He's down to 175 now.

Lincecum also cut out those well publicized meals of three In-N-Out double-doubles. "Just make sure you don't pick up the third one," he said."