Tim Lincecum and the Los Angeles Angels made it official Friday : His comeback attempt begins with a halo. Lincecum officially scrawled his name across a contract that will pay him $2.5 million to throw baseballs this season, a marriage of pitcher and pitching-depleted team that our own Jeff Passan first reported Monday . [ Join a Yahoo Daily Fantasy Baseball contest now ] Lincecum says his hips — surgically repaired at the end of last season — feel great. His fastball appears to have more life on it than we've seen in a few years. So, once again, hope springs for Lincecum, whose free fall from back-to-back Cy Young winner to afterthought with the Giants remains one of the most fascinating stories in the past decade of baseball.