{"id":7028,"date":"2013-06-20T12:26:31","date_gmt":"2013-06-20T16:26:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com.\/?p=7028"},"modified":"2013-06-20T12:26:31","modified_gmt":"2013-06-20T16:26:31","slug":"more-r-a-dickey-animated-gifs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=7028","title":{"rendered":"More R.A. Dickey Animated Gifs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_6057\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/DickeyRA-wiki-flickr-dbking.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6057\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-6057\" alt=\"R.A. Dickey throwing another knockler. Photo via wiki\/flickr user dbking\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/DickeyRA-wiki-flickr-dbking-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-6057\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">R.A. Dickey throwing another knockler. Photo via wiki\/flickr user dbking<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A few months ago I posted a Youtube video showing a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com.\/?p=6055\">Catcher&#8217;s point-of-view look<\/a> at\u00a0<strong>R.A. Dickey<\/strong>&#8216;s knuckle ball coming in.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a couple more cool graphics that have popped up on various blogs that I read.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 13px;\">\u00a0From imgur\/r\/baseball, an <a href=\"http:\/\/imgur.com\/r\/baseball\/dCmvK7c\">animated Gif of Dickey&#8217;s knuckler<\/a> as it travels to the plate. \u00a0Done by the same fellow @DShep25 who did similar Gifs of\u00a0<strong>Yu Darvish<\/strong>&#8216;s repertoire and of\u00a0<strong>Miguel Cabrera<\/strong>&#8216;s ability to hit homers from any point in terms of plate coverage. \u00a0(h\/t to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/gif-of-three-dickey-knuckleballs-dancing-2013-6?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+businessinsider%2Fsportspage+%28Sports+Page%29\">BusinessInsider blog<\/a>).<\/span><\/li>\n<li>And here&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fangraphs.com\/blogs\/tracking-r-a-dickeys-knuckleball\/\">a story to go<\/a> with the above images from the author himself,\u00a0<strong>Drew Shephard<\/strong> on fangraphs.com.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Still amazing that his 2013 numbers are so bad right now (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/d\/dicker.01.shtml\">6-8, 4.90 ERA, 1.388 whip<\/a>, all significantly worse than his Cy Young numbers from last year). \u00a0The Blue Jays are only 6-9 in his starts, a big reason why they&#8217;re in last place in the AL East right now.<\/p>\n<p>And then, since its related to these cool graphics, here&#8217;s a study (again from BusinessInsider&#8217;s Sports blog) about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/physics-of-the-curve-ball-2013-6?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+businessinsider%2Fsportspage+%28Sports+Page%29\">Physics of a Curve Ball<\/a>. \u00a0Its no wonder Dickey reportedly didn&#8217;t even travel with the team when they went to Colorado; he knew his pitches wouldn&#8217;t have any movement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; A few months ago I posted a Youtube video showing a Catcher&#8217;s point-of-view look at\u00a0R.A. Dickey&#8216;s knuckle ball coming in. Here&#8217;s a couple more cool graphics that have popped up on various blogs that I read. \u00a0From imgur\/r\/baseball, an animated Gif of Dickey&#8217;s knuckler as it travels to the plate. \u00a0Done by the same [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1840,405,781,300],"class_list":["post-7028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlbpitching","tag-drew-shephard","tag-miguel-cabrera","tag-ra-dickey","tag-yu-darvish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7028"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7028\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7035,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7028\/revisions\/7035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}