SP Dickey 'feels great' at 37: The New York Daily News reports Mets SP R.A. Dickey is focused on the 2012 season after a busy offseason, which included climbing Mount Kilamanjaro, writing an autobiography that will be released March 29 and finishing interviews for a documentary on knuckleballers. “I literally feel like I am in the best shape of my life at 37 years old,” Dickey said. “Having climbed a mountain, my cardiovascular (system) feels great and my arm feels great." (Updated 01/30/2012)
Injury Report
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Fantasy Analysis
Dickey has had two of the best seasons of his career since joining the Mets rotation in 2010. He took a slight step back in 2011 after having a career campaign in 2010, but his 8-13 record had more to do with the Mets struggles as a team. Dickey struck out a career-high 134 batters, while posting a 3.28 ERA and 1.23 WHIP. The Mets aren't expected to contend in 2012, but Dickey is still worth a late-round pick in Fantasy. (Updated 01/30/2012).
01/17/2012 04:51 2012 Fantasy outlooks: New York Mets
The Mets face a lot of question marks (Johan Santana and Jason Bay, to name a pair), but Fantasy owners can also look forward to up-and-coming talent taking big steps forward in 2012.
R.A. Dickey isn't supposed to be good. He's a 37-year-old journeyman whose bread-and-butter pitch -- the knuckleball -- only recently entered his repertoire. But in the short period of time that he has relied on the gimmick as a means of survival, he has managed to do with it what few lifelong knuckleballers have: throw strikes. He issued 2.3 walks per nine innings last year -- a mark that Tim Wakefield has reached only once in 19 seasons and that Hall of Famer Phil Niekro didn't reach in any of his final 15. And that number was even better for Dickey in 2010. He actually struggled with his control early last year, but once he found it, he was able to breeze through every lineup he faced, allowing no more than four earned runs in any of his final 24 starts for a 2.69 ERA during that stretch. Yet despite that success, chances are he'll go undrafted in mixed leagues again because of his age, sub-.500 record and less-than-stellar strikeout rate. Don't make the mistake of underestimating him. If this year goes the way the last two have, the Fantasy owner who takes a flier on Dickey late will have little cause to bench him over the course of the season. (Updated 1/11/12)
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= probable start