How can you not be thrilled for Blue Jays starter R.A. Dickey? Selected by the Texas Rangers 18th overall in the 1996 MLB Draft, the same year your Toronto Blue Jays selected Billy Koch fourth (Eek), Dickey’s career has taken him in and out of the game, from a struggling, dime-a-dozen arm to a knuckleballing Cy Young winner. In game four of the ALDS, he’ll have his opportunity to bring things full circle.
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Dickey stumbled out of the gates this season, which is something we’ve come too accept with the nature of his signature pitch, but has quietly becomes one of Toronto’s steadier pitchers over the past month.