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Originally Posted by Phila26Flyers

There is some truth in his post though, regardless of ERA. Dickey is a one-trick pony. If he loses his edge for a couple starts, he has no contingency plan. If Hamels' changeup isn't working for him one game, he adjusts location of his fastball or goes to his curveball more. What can Dickey do when his knuckler just isn't working right? That's why the Jays lose this deal: they are banking on Dickey to go out and preform his only trick well. Maybe being in the AL where hitters haven't seem him will work in his favor. But since he wanted $13 million(?) to preform one trick that he has no backup for, in my opinion the Mets are better suited to trade him for the players they are rumored to be getting.

Gose and D'Arnaud were both ranked high in the Phillies system before they went to Toronto for Roy Halladay. I hope that remains their biggest claim to fame if they end up on the Mets, but objectively, the Mets got two young players with a ton of potential. D'Arnaud, at 23, is putting up great numbers in the minors, especially for a catcher. He is a franchise catcher if he pans out as expected. Gose is younger and his numbers are more modest, but he is only 22, so he has time to develop. The Mets will probably play him in the OF at some point this season to see what they have to work with. That's what I think in a nutshell, but if just one player pans out as expected (esp. D'Arnaud), you won't even remember Dickey's name.

At one point last year Dickey said if his knuckle ball wasn't working he would try and use his other stuff. The Mets manager didn't like the sounds of that and said as much so you have a point. Still, it has worked well three years in a row now so there is no reason to believe he will lose it all of the sudden and he does have different variations of his knuckle ball thrown with different speeds that have different movement.