{"playerId":658,"percentChange":0,"averageDraftPosition":56.4,"percentOwned":100,"playerRaterSEASON":1.3,"playerRater7DAY":0.6,"mostRecentNews":{"news":"Dickey's (neck) MRI came back clean and he remains on track to start Saturday against the Mariners, Shi Davidi of Sportsnet reports.","spin":"It's certainly a good sign for Dickey that there's nothing structurally wrong in his neck, but he may still be pitching at something less than 100 percent given the lingering soreness he's experienced over the last three starts.","date":"Wed May 1"},"fullName":"R.A. Dickey","seasonOutlook":{"outlook":"Though historical knuckleball velocity readings aren't readily available, by all accounts no one in the game's history has possessed the ability to throw a knuckleball as fast as Dickey can -- 80-plus mph -- as often as he can. He threw 490 knucklers 80 mph or faster in 2012 and opponents batted .146 against them with a .407 OPS, 92 of his 230 strikeouts coming on those pitches. That helped widen Dickey's arsenal, giving him effectively an extra pitch to go along with his \"soft\" (sub-75 mph) knuckler and mid-80s fastball, and it flustered hitters to the extent that he had an otherworldly eight-start stretch May 22-June 29 during which time he had a 0.86 ERA and 76 K's en route to winning the National League's Cy Young Award. It's that diversity of pitches that might ease Dickey's transition to the American League, and specifically the hitter-friendly Rogers Centre and hitting-rich AL East, as opponents might remain largely unfamiliar with his offerings. It's often said that knuckleballers are the most difficult to project from year to year and that, to a degree, applies to Dickey as well and is the primary reason we wouldn't endorse him as the No. 1 starting pitcher, the spot he occupied on our 2012 Player Rater. But he's also a special knuckleballer with a three-year track record of success, and we're not so sure he doesn't have another elite year in his tank.","seasonId":2013,"date":"Wed Feb 20"},"playerRater30DAY":1.4,"playerRater15DAY":2.7,"positionRank":79}