AND HERE WE GO!
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R. A. Dickey, the knuckleball wonder, will undergo surgery
on October 18th, after experiencing a muscle tear in April! He
worked the whole season with the tear and then on his last start against the
Miami Marlins he felt it tear more in the second inning, but managed to pitch
an incredible game!
Unfortunately
there is talk about his not winning the Cy Young Award, and if that happens a
great injustice has occurred not only to the man, but to baseball as well.
Look at
the numbers-
GM-34 W-20 L-6 BB-54 K-230
ERA-2.73
How can
anyone discriminate against that record because he is a knuckleball pitcher?
That would be a stupid reason, since the pitch is legal, they have used it
forever, he used no steroids and there is a great story behind the man having
this incredible season.
Just
the ratio of walks to strikeouts is so fantastic: especially coming from a
knuckleballer just blows my mind! All through baseball history, knuckleballers
have been notorious for walks and high pitch counts, achieving what Dickey did
seems impossible! Very few have ever won 20 games, and he did it coming form a
career he almost lost, but because he loved the game so much, reinvented
himself into the best pitcher on a pretty good starting rotation, even though
the team lost. Couple one more fact, the team, the Mets only won about 74 games
and he won 20 of them!
That’s
all I wrote, folks!
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