WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. – Forrest Whitley, baseball's consensus top pitching prospect, once followed Tim Lincecum's career the way a bloodhound chases a scent. He knew Lincecum's style, stats and sizzle. But there was one delicious bit of the Lincecum legend that had slipped past him.
The two-time Cy Young winner and perpetually skinny Lincecum revealed one spring that in an attempt to keep weight on, he regularly ordered three double-doubles, two fries and a chocolate-strawberry milkshake from his beloved In-N-Out Burger.
Lean and lithe in the Houston Astros' clubhouse this spring as he readies for an MLB debut that should come early this season, Whitley does a brief double take upon learning this double-double news.