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NL West Rumors: Lincecum, Rockies, Dodgers

The latest out of the NL West...

• Signing Tim Lincecum to a multiyear deal is at the top of the Giants' agenda, reports SI's Jon Heyman.  The Giants are aiming for at least a four-year deal, which would buy out two years of free agency.  Though Matt Cain is a year closer to free agency, Heyman says the focus is more on Lincecum.  Heyman believes Lincecum's agents at Beverly Hills Sports Council could file as high as $25MM in arbitration this winter, in my opinion a risky move if the Giants come in around $20MM.  For more on Lincecum's historic arbitration case, click here.
• The Rockies will not dabble financially in marginal players, explained GM Dan O'Dowd to Troy E. Renck of the Denver Post.  They do have interest in Paul Maholm, Jeff Francis, and J.C. Romero, though, according to Renck, after bigger free agent targets such as Grady Sizemore and Roy Oswalt.
• The Dodgers will lower their payroll in 2012, tweets Dylan Hernandez of the L.A. Times.  The team's opening day payroll was about $120MM in 2011.  So far this offseason they've added $6.5MM in 2012 salaries for Mark Ellis and Juan Rivera.  Here's my offseason outlook for the club.
• Unlike Ellis' deal, Aaron Hill's new contract with the Diamondbacks is not backloaded.  He'll earn $5.5MM in each of the '12 and '13 seasons, tweets Nick Piecoro of the Arizona Republic.  Piecoro has an updated look at Arizona's payroll, and concludes that they'd need to non-tender Joe Saunders to be able to afford one of the better free agent pitchers on the market.  MLBTR readers are split remarkably evenly as to whether Saunders will be tendered a contract on December 12th.

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