Tim Lincecum has dropped 25 pounds this offseason. (AP)Tim Lincecum's bank account may be getting a lot fatter, but the Freak's physique is headed the opposite way. After using 2011 to bulk up in an attempt to gain endurance, Lincecum appeared at the Giants fanfest this past weekend and said he had lost 22 pounds over the winter.

It's kind of hard to believe that Lincecum had 22 pounds to lose in the first place, though not as hard as believing the pitcher's claim that he weighed close to 200 pounds when taking the mound last season.

With the added poundage not providing the benefit he thought it might, Lincecum took to using a counter-current pool to get down to around 175 pounds from 197. He also cut down on his famous trips to In-N-Out while eliminating other outlets entirely.

Bad Ronald!

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With A-Rod taking his popcorn bucket elsewhere, Sunday's Super Bowl was low on awkward baseball-related storylines. But Kevin Youkilis of the Boston Red Sox did make a valiant effort, showing up to the Maxim party in Indianapolis, where he was greeted by some sort of castoff character from the movie Kick-Ass or something.

So have at it, amateur Internet copy editors of the world. How should this caption read?

Follow the jump for winners from our last C-A-C featuring a Prince and his court:

Jeremy Guthrie is headed to Coors Field. (AP)Faced with the prospect of a long arbitration hearing the Monday after the Super Bowl, the Baltimore Orioles took the easy way out with Jeremy Guthrie and traded him to the Colorado Rockies.

In return for the 32-year-old righthander, the Orioles will receive a pair of big league righties: starter Jason Hammel and reliever Matt Lindstrom.

Dan Connolly of the Baltimore Sun reported the news first. Guthrie then took to Twitter to confirm the trade himself.

"Toto, I have a feeling we're not in Baltimore anymore." Just found out I was traded to @Rockies #MLB #Rocktober

Guthrie was a member of the Orioles for five seasons and had three opening day starts to his credit. But with his final year of arbitration approaching, the two sides were having trouble working out a deal. Guthrie's camp had submitted a salary request of $10.25 million while the O's were only offering $7.25 million. Hammel and Lindstrom make a combined $8.35 million so it appears that Baltimore is limiting their risk and avoiding the chance that Guthrie would be awarded his request in the arb hearing.

Justin Verlander quarterbacked the Detroit Tigers to the ALCS. (AP)Justin Verlander, is there nothing you can't do?

Verlander, the AL MVP and Cy Young winner who led the Detroit Tigers to the ALCS in 2011, completed a unique triple crown Sunday by correctly picking the winner and score of Super Bowl XLVI: New York Giants 21, New England Patriots 17.

[ Related: Giants win Super Bowl behind another comeback by Eli Manning ]

"Verlander" must be Dutch for "psychic."

Verlander actually gets another trophy for his clairvoyance — the 2012 Super Sage Award, presented by the Scripps Howard News Service. Every year since 1986, Scripps Howard has held a celebrity pick 'em contest, and Verlander was the only one among the 100-plus persons polled from the world of sports, entertainment and media to get the score and winner exactly right. The San Diego Chicken (Ted Giannoulas) won the contest a year ago.

As C. Trent Rosecrans noted at Eye on Baseball, a victorious Verlander was ready with his own touchdown dance on Twitter:

21-17 prediction #proudwinner

Although, by scrolling through Verlander's feed, which includes several observations on the Big Game and halftime show (Madonna was "tanking" before "killing it at the end"), you'll notice that Verlander issued a revised prediction about midday Sunday:

Josh Hamilton met with the media on Friday afternoon. (AP)

When news of Josh Hamilton's relapse first broke on Thursday night, we wrote with certainty that the Texas Rangers star would soon be forthcoming and honest about his public moment of weakness.

As expected, Hamilton did just that on Friday afternoon, explaining the circumstances of his Monday night outing for more than 10 minutes at a press conference he held at Rangers Ballpark.

Hamilton did not take questions from the press, but he did speak without notes and what he said was obviously from the heart. As Ken Rosenthal later said on MLB Network, it almost appeared as if he viewed the press conference as part of his recovery process — and not to calm a press and public that, for better or worse, will always play a role in his battle with addiction.

The Fort Worth Star-Telegram has a transcript of the full statement, but here are a few of the key information points:

This thing has to have a vulnerable exhaust port ... right? (AP)

With the start of the 2012 season fast approaching, workers are busy putting the final touches on the Miami Marlins' new ballpark in Little Havana. No joke, they've got owner Jeffrey Loria laying sod and first baseman Gaby Sanchez testing the strength of the aquarium glass behind home plate by throwing baseballs at it.

The most notable progress this week, however, has come in left-center field where the Red Grooms-designed home run monstrosity is finally becoming a reality. From swaying palm trees to jumping marlins to flamingos who are straight chillin', we're getting closer and closer to the animation of something that must have been in the Mayan prophecy.

After seeing this acid trip come to life, I can't say that my feelings have changed on it much. It still looks crazy, but it is a direct reflection of the culture they're running down there in south Florida. If you look at it objectively, New York's giant rising apple and Chicago's exploding scoreboard were pretty absurd at the times they were introduced. Maybe Mike Stanton will help us to get over the shock of seeing this light up every time he pounds a ball high over the Marlins Ballpark fence.

Or not.

Brian Cashman: Police informant. (Getty)No other executive in Major League Baseball can match the resources, and few have the acumen, of New York Yankees general manager Brian Cashman. And almost no one can claim to live as adventurous a personal life.

Cashman scales buildings for Christmas dressed as one of Santa's elves. He sleeps in Central Park to raise awareness for child homelessness. He ... becomes a police informant to help catch a woman accused of harassing and extorting money from him after they had a 10-month alleged affair. That's right: Cashman lured her into a police dragnet.

That is the fantastically strange story told by the New York Daily News and Deadspin. Now, if you add up all of the sordid details, Cashman doesn't come out looking like Snow White in this tale. But there's no question he's running away with "The Most Interesting GM in the World" award for this century so far.

From the NYDN:

Prosecutors portrayed Louise Neathway, 36 — who said in an interview published Thursday that she was Cashman's mistress — as a con artist who pestered him for cash.

"The defendant extorted approximately $6,000 from the victim and attempted to extort over $15,000," prosecutor Eric Iverson said at Neathway's Manhattan Criminal Court arraignment Thursday.

But here's the best part:

Neathway, a British citizen who also goes by the name Louise Meanwell, was arrested Wednesday afternoon in front of her Tribeca apartment building on Leonard St. A source said Cashman helped lure Neathway into a police dragnet.

They practically deputized him! Cashman always had a little bit of a Columbo look to him.

Josh Hamilton used ginger ale to celebrate two straight AL pennants. (AP)Texas Rangers star Josh Hamilton has experienced a relapse in his ongoing battle against substance abuse, the Dallas Morning News reported on Thursday night.

Reporter Gerry Fraley credits sources for relaying that Hamilton was spotted drinking in an Dallas-area bar.

Update: Fraley later added that teammate Ian Kinsler also appeared at the bar in an "attempt to persuade Hamilton to return to his home in Westlake."

Fraley also acquired a statement from the team that acknowledged the story, but did not confirm it. Hamilton made headlines in the summer of 2009 after pictures of him drinking and partying in an Arizona bar made their way onto Deadspin.

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