AND HERE WE GO!

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R. A. Dickey, the knuckleball wonder, will undergo surgery on October 18^th, 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!