Just How Good Is RA Dickey?
RA Dickey is the perfect microcosm for this Mets team. Perfect. He’s the guy who’s performance defies all logic. He’s the guy who people are convinced can’t be this good. He’s the guy everyone is waiting for to fail.
And its just not happening anytime soon.
I’ll admit rooting for RA Dickey has been a roller coaster for me. When he was the goofy journeyman knuckler it was impossible not to root for him. He was like a character out of Major League or something. Seemed to catch lightning in a bottle and it was like “lets just milk this for all its worth.” Then he got on twitter and did all his religious preaching and was busy climbing Mount Kilimanjaro and it was all amidst the dark offseason of the Wilpons and I couldn’t even see his name without wanting to vomit.
But The Dickpiece can climb whatever fucking mountains he wants now. Can talk about God until the cows come home on social media. He can write his books and talk about his babysitters and do whatever he damn well pleases. Because plain and simple RA Dickey is one of the best pitchers in baseball. And I’m not talking about the past few weeks. I’m not talking about this half a season. I’m talking about in general. In the entire league. Since 2010 there have been 65 pitchers that have thrown at least 400 Innings. Of those 65, RA Dickey’s ERA of 2.91 ranks SEVENTH in all of baseball. Kershaw, Verlander, Halladay, Weaver, Lee, and Cain are the only pitchers better. No matter how you slice it, he’s one of the most effective, reliable, consistent pitchers in the game. It ain’t power pitching. It ain’t sexy. But it is impressive as fuck in its own right.
And with 10 wins before the break, and 9.0 K/9, if you don’t think he’ll be in serious contention for the Cy Young you must be outside of your mind. The Dickpiece RA Dickey and your 2012 New York Mets – just out there throwing junk because it keeps fucking working.
So in 2 1/2 seasons he’s got the 7th best ERA. Someone should start rolling out the Hall of Fame red carpet now just to save time.
im changing the name of my fantasy baseball team to The Dickpiece
One look at his career stats tells me this is just a fluke year. He’ll finish the season somewhere around 15 – 10. Second half Mets collapse is automatic.
Bill James would agree with you: http://espn.go.com/mlb/features/cyyoung
His career stats mean nothing. Only his stats since he’s become a knuckle ball pitcher
I don’t know…watching some of his knucklers – a pitch no one else currently masters – completely fall off the table & make hitters look spastic is pretty damn sexy to me.
Just like 2 weeks ago, when you proclaimed Santana the best pitcher in NY?? Your a dumb, delusional, typical jew met fan, that doesn’t realize all your “predication” are really just mushing the shit out of your own players. Thank god you don’t talk good about Yankee pitchers, otherwise they’d be giving up back to back to back homers and 5 in 1 game. Dicky wont win shit except the biggest pussy award for complaining about how a 15 year old girl “ molested him”, when he was 12, get real dude thats called getting laid.
I’ll give you that if the season ended today, he’d be a top 2 cy young contender. However, there is still a ton of the season left, and if he even takes a MINOR dip in his numbers the mets will be totally fucked.
RAW. DICK.
To all 5000 mets fans, I’ve seen more people in the subways than i did in the stands when Santana threw his no hitter (with the exception of the one hit they called foul). Unlike Frisco- sold out Wed night vs the Asstros-but thats how we roll in Frisco. P.s, all you bostons redsox fans, tell Bukner, ‘thats how u field a trick ground ball when the games on the line. Matt Cain is a BEAST!!!!
Dickey didn’t need 1 blog and certainly not 2
have you caught a case of the blinds?? just a matter of time until the mets and dickface come crashing back to reality. petitioning for a hit to be changed to an error? fucking disgrace.
KFC, four words. Regression to the mean. It’s the fucking Mets.
He pitches for the Mets, which means NL -> farm league. Look at pitchers (or hitters) who transition to AL and how they do. Big Albert isn’t really setting the world on fire in the AL, if he played for AL East it would be even worse.
No mention of Lance Lynn? First year as a starting pitcher and he’s 10-2.
Lance Lynn, the birdinals actually have a shot at not being terrible the second half of the season unlike the mets who are a ticking timebomb. Lynn pitched 7 scoreless 3 hits and the cards won 1-0
All of you faggots have been saying the Mets are a “ticking time bomb” since they started off hot. You said it in April. You said it in May. Now it’s mid-June. Keep saying “Dickey sucks” and “It’s the Mets, they’ll collapse again” all you want. All i know is that my team is legit. Anyone who says otherwise hasn’t seen them play.