R.A. Dickey, 2012 NL Cy Young Award Winner
Sports Spectrum Podcast
Sports Spectrum
4.9 • 685 Ratings
🗓️ 22 August 2019
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
Today we look back to August of 2018, Episode 136 of the podcast with former MLB Cy Young winning pitcher R.A. Dickey.
R.A. pitched for 15 seasons in the major leagues with the Rangers, Mariners, Twins, Mets, Blue Jays and Braves and was a member of the 1996 Bronze Medal winning Olympic baseball team.
In 2001, Dickey made his MLB debut with Texas. eleven years later, he was the best pitcher in the National League, becoming the first knuckleball pitcher to win the Cy Young Award. He went 20-6 with 230 strikeouts and an ERA of 2.73, and he made his first and only All-Star team.
R.A. shares on this THROWBACK edition of the podcast about the platform God gave him after winning the 2012 Cy Young Award.
You can listen to the entire interview with R.A. Dickey here or by searching his name on iTunes/Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio App or anywhere podcasts are listened to.
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| 0:20.0 | Welcome everyone to a throwback edition of Sports Spectrums podcast. |
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| 1:06.0 | We're going to look back at August 6, 2018, episode number 136 of the podcast with 2012 National |
| 1:14.7 | League Cy Young Award winner R.A. Dickie. And R.A. was really great on the show. |
| 1:21.3 | We talked about his first season away from baseball, acclimating himself to that dad |
| 1:26.6 | life and growing up in a broken home |
| 1:29.4 | that he struggled through in seeking treatment about his mental health and how faith |
| 1:35.1 | in Christ really saved his life. |
| 1:37.8 | And the snippet that we're going to play for you today on the throwback edition of the |
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