The 42-year-old knuckleballer, who is a pending free agent, has been squeezed out of the Blue Jays’ starting rotation for the season’s final sprint. It may be hard for some Blue Jays fans to believe, but Dickey has been a league-average starter during his four seasons in Toronto, posting a cumulative 4.05 ERA, while averaging more than 200 innings per year. That’s kind of been the tightrope I’ve had to walk.”Given his pitch’s reputation as an unreliable gimmick, Dickey says he always felt a kind of burden to outperform the biases against it. Despite the inherent unpredictability of his pitch, Dickey has been among the most stalwart arms in the game. “That’s kind of the irony of it, right?,” he said.

Source: thestar September 25, 2016 00:56 UTC