Met fans everywhere miss having R.A. on the team. If the Jays fans don't appreciate him, send him back. We'll give you Ike Davis and Buck for Dickey and Thole. Toronto wasn't even smart enough to keep them paired together for the first half of the season, sending Josh down to the minors. No wonder they're in LAST place! They have good players, but their management is "Collins-stupid"! LET'S GO METS!!!
RA DIckey is the man! love this guy and so glad he's apart of the Mets. I wouldn't be surprised if RA Dickey threw a perfect game this year judging the way he's been pitching
- Jordan and Stein Represent!! Goldenstick players are more than 'backyard hurlers', and that Nasty pitching impressed R.A. - (he wasn't expecting pro's.) I'm impressed as well, Great job!
Unlike other pitches like the fastball, where it is possible to get away with a bad one, a knuckleball needs to be 100% perfect at all times, any spin on that ball is basically batting practice. Also, a knuckleball is not thrown like any other pitch, the ball is pretty much pushed out of the hand(fingertips) while, for example, a fastball slides off the two fingers to give it spin. To complement Dickey, throwing a knuckleball from the high-70s to low-80s is not human, keep up the work!
He was just so dominant in 2012. He got tons of strikeouts as well. The thing that makes RA so good is that he has a slow knuckeball, a fast knuckeball, and a fastball that reaches between 80-85 mph.
Dickeys already 38 and he has some unknown condition where he actually doesn't have a UCL, thats why he switched to knuckeballs in the first place, so with his unique body and style there's no telling what he'll do in the future. I wouldn't be surprised if he started throwing submarine.
1:12 - EXACTLY!!! This is why I'm against scuffing. Once you scuff or doctor the ball, you're no longer playing wiffleball. Now you're playing some modified version.
It makes me laugh how R.A said if he had those pitches he would throw the mets first no hitter but then again Johan Santana already threw the first no hitter in mets history before this video
If they'd had instant replay then Johan wouldn't have had a no hitter either. Beltran's "foul ball" in the sixth caught the chalk on the outfield side of third base and should have been a hit.
RA is one of my favorite pitchers but i dont think he will make it to the hall of fame, he just doesnt have the stats to do it, id say he has 5 more year in him, and to even get put on to the ballot i think he will need to have 15+ wins in the next 5 years
yeah the cuts from the steak knife cause turbulence when the balls thrown thats how we get it to break the way we want, sort of acts like the stitching on a baseball
But he has to slow down the knuckleball when he ages, throwing one for 80 MPH is quite fast, seeing as how Wakefield never got it passed 70. As he ages, you can expect his ERA to go above 3. Dickey's success comes from how fast he can throw that knuckleball. But, he may pull it off to his mid-40s, the throwing action to throw a knuckleball will cause little stress to the elbow, preventing damage that may end a pitcher's career.
It's the other way around...If you read his book, or looked on his past, he was sexually abused as a child and held it in (to his wife and family) until he came open about it a few years back.
i like Santana, but technicly RA threw it because with Santana a ball that was called foul on the cardnals was fair and that would of been a hit, but with dickey a ball that was called fair for a batter which was acctually foul which was the only hit of that game. ha, educate yourself you fool. Oh ya, this is to baseballcardmaniac.
Yes, both of them are better than RA in my opinion. But RA had the best year by a knuckleball pitcher, ever (2012). Any time a pitcher wins 20 games on a team that wins less than 80 games, then you know that that's a dominant pitcher.
