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Originally Posted by nik-

If we look back and say that a knuckleballer with an outlier year was the reason we didn't win it all, I'll eat my hat.

it wasn't that much of an outlier year though

http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/index...ne-great-year/

61 pitchers threw at least 350 innings between 2010 and 2011. During those two years, Dickey posted an ERA- of 81, meaning that he prevented runs at a rate 19 percent better than the league average. We’re using ERA- for Dickey because knuckleballers have a long exhibited history of being an exception to FIP, by the way. That put him squarely between Matt Cain and Tim Lincecum, and ahead of guys like Hiroki Kuroda, Dan Haren, Chris Carpenter, and Mat Latos. Not bad company.