| Dickey!!! |
Sat, 02 June 2012 16:57  |
 ER_Sports
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A number of the crew involved in a good way with him this afternoon. I personally had kept playing the UNDER as it kept getting bet OVER. Anyway, the guy is amazing and about as undervalued as they come. 100 pitch complete game shutout today, I had read this about his last start...
Dickey had the knuckleball working again during pregame warmups, Mets catcher Mike Nickeas realized, when he was dropping pitches because he couldn't keep up with the movement. The defensive minded Nickeas has had difficulty hanging on to Dickey's latest pitch in his arsenal -- the rising knuckleball.
Nickeas pointed to that pitch as the reason for Dickey's 29 strikeouts over his last three starts, tied for the second highest total in the Major Leagues over a three-game span this season. Dickey is the first Mets pitcher, since Pedro Martinez in 2006, to record back-to-back double-digit strikeout games.
"He's learning how to control that elevated knuckleball where it looks like it's going to come down and then just pops up again," Nickeas said. "That's the one that I have trouble with. It's incredible the way that thing moves."
http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/gameday/index.jsp?gid=2012_05_27_sdnm lb_nynmlb_1&mode=box#gid=2012_05_27_sdnmlb_nynmlb_1& mode=recap&c_id=nym
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| Re: Dickey!!! |
Mon, 04 June 2012 12:06  |
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Just like the pitch he throws......knuckleballers have no consistency. When they are on they are on, but when they are off......The mets are hot now and are playing over their heads. Don't expect it to last to long though....
"Lets get it on!"
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| Re: Dickey!!! |
Thu, 07 June 2012 13:40 |
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| samip25 wrote on Thu, 07 June 2012 13:38 |
DICKEY!!! My man once again this afternoon!
Gives up just 4 hits, 2 BBs, and 0 runs while striking out 8 over 7.1 innings of work to get another W and move to 9-1 with a 2.44 ERA.
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73 strikes to 34 balls. For a knucklballer? That is insane.
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| Re: Dickey!!! |
Thu, 07 June 2012 18:15 |
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| samip25 wrote on Thu, 07 June 2012 13:38 |
DICKEY!!! My man once again this afternoon!
Gives up just 4 hits, 2 BBs, and 0 runs while striking out 8 over 7.1 innings of work to get another W and move to 9-1 with a 2.44 ERA.
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Hard to beleive but he has to be an early season Cy Young candidate.
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| Re: Dickey!!! |
Thu, 07 June 2012 18:22 |
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His command and ability to get ground balls is truly amazing!!!
23 of his last 24 starts have been considered quality, I'd say that's pretty damn consistent...
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| Re: Dickey!!! |
Wed, 13 June 2012 07:43 |
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It will be interesting to see. He hasn't pitched much indoors the last couple of seasons, however, his career numbers in domes are not terrific.
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| Re: Dickey!!! |
Fri, 15 June 2012 07:12 |
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On a lighter note from my last post in this thread 
Dickey has now had four straight starts with no earned runs and at least eight strikeouts. According to Elias, no pitcher has had more than four straight such starts in MLB history. The other three pitchers to do so were Pedro Martinez (2002), Ray Culp (1968) and Gaylord Perry (1967).
So how did Dickey dominate the Rays?
• Of his 106 pitches, 100 were knuckleballs. That’s Dickey’s highest knuckleball percentage (94.3) in his Mets career.
• Of his 100 knuckleballs, 55 of them were above the belt, gaining 16 outs (six strikeouts), the most in his Mets career.
• The Rays missed 22 of the 63 knuckleballs they swung at (34.9 percent). The 22 missed knuckleballs are also the most in Dickey’s Mets career.
• Eleven of the 12 strikeouts were swinging.
With the victory, Dickey is now one of two 10-game winners in baseball this season.
That’s rather impressive considering that Dickey has never had more than 11 wins in a season, he was 8-13 last season, he’s 37 years old, and he was in the Minors just two seasons ago.
At 10-1 with a 2.20 ERA and 90 strikeouts, Dickey has cemented himself into the early Cy Young Award conversation. If Dickey were to win it, he’d be the oldest first-time Cy Young Award winner as a starter since Early Wynn, who was 39 years old when he won it in 1959. When Wynn won it, it was just the fourth year of the Cy Young Award, so it’s possible Wynn could have won one earlier in his career if the award had existed.
A Cy Young Award for a Met? It hasn’t happened since 1985, when Doc Gooden went 24-4 with a 1.53 ERA and 268 strikeouts.
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| Re: Dickey!!! |
Fri, 15 June 2012 07:58 |
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I don't have the numbers in front of me, but I've always been under the impression that a knuckler in a dome is a bad thing with some sort of wind helping the ball dance more. Obviously, Dickey's run has defied pretty much everything.
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| Re: Dickey!!! |
Sun, 17 June 2012 08:25 |
ER_Sports
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| AndrewL wrote on Fri, 15 June 2012 07:58 |
I don't have the numbers in front of me, but I've always been under the impression that a knuckler in a dome is a bad thing with some sort of wind helping the ball dance more. Obviously, Dickey's run has defied pretty much everything.
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They were begging on this one, glad MLB didn't change the scoring. Although it seemed Wright perhaps had time to not rush so much... I remember Wakefield being known for doing very well in Tampa?? Better command I believe...
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