Tim Lincecum should be proud. The San Francisco Giants pitcher won the National League Cy Young Award in only his second season in the MLB.
 

Before he played for the Giants, though, Lincecum pitched at the University of Washington where he became the first player ever named both the Pac-10 Freshman of the Year and the Pac-10 Pitcher of the Year. In 2006 he was drafted 10th by the Giants, and thus became the first University of Washington player taken in the first round.
 

Last season, Lincecum led the MLB 265 strikeouts which certainly didn’t hurt his Cy Young chances. Bloomberg reports:

The 24-year-old right-hander received 23 first-place votes and 137 points in balloting by the Baseball Writers Association of America. Brandon Webb of the Arizona Diamondbacks was second with 73 points and Johan Santana of the New York Mets was third with 55.

Lincecum had a quarter of his team's victories as San Francisco finished last season with a 72-90 record. He's the second Giants pitcher to win the award as the league's best pitcher, following Mike McCormick in 1967.

The Giants selected Lincecum with the 10th pick in the 2006 draft. He went 7-5 with a 4.00 ERA in 24 starts in his rookie season.

Good for Lincecum. Let’s just hope he didn’t peak early.