Metsblog posted today portions of fan Q&A with R.A. Dickey.
At one point, Dickey was asked if he was going to still throw two speeds of Knuckleballs, to which he responded “3”.
What does this actually mean?
I haven’t found anything about him pitching or practicing yet an even faster knuckleball, or a slower one, so I doubt that (although if someone can find a link and post it, then I’ll gladley accept it and cross out the rest of this article).
What I’m interpretting this to mean is that he is throwing an in between pitch, maybe even closer to a traditional knuckleball, and he is labeling it as a 3rd speed now. R.A.’s normal knuckleball is a lot faster than normal knuckleballs, and his slow pitch, that he used a few times a game last year, is much slower, so I wonder now if he is using a normal speed one as well.
If he is, I am interested to see how he mixes them up.
