R.A. Dickey Personality Type, MBTI
What is the personality type of R.A. Dickey? Which MBTI personality type best fits? Personality type for R.A. Dickey from Baseball and what is the personality traits.
INTP (5w6)
R.A. Dickey personality type is INTP, with a preference for the Sensing and Thinking preferences. Dickey is a two-pitch pitcher, and his most common pitch is a heavy sinker that he throws for strikes. He is known as a master of changeups and is often compared to Bobby Cox as a master of the pitch as well as the psychology of pitching.
Dickey is also known as a quiet and unassuming man. He "comes off as quiet and unassuming", and has been described as a natural leader. He is known for his personal honesty and refusal to lie, and the "New York Times" has written that "nothing about his personality suggests that he would lie." According to MLB.com, "the Southern gentleman has always been ready to shake hands and accept another's comments with a gracious nod of the head… the New York Mets' Dickey has become a Southern gentleman with a personality as engaging as his pitching."
Dickey was born on August 30, 1966, in Augusta, Georgia, the first of three children of Pauline Reay and David Dickey. He was raised in Augusta, where he attended Woodland High School, graduating in 1984.
Robert Allen Dickey is an American former professional baseball pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball for the Texas Rangers, Seattle Mariners, Minnesota Twins, New York Mets, Toronto Blue Jays and Atlanta Braves. After limited success in the MLB as a conventional starting pitcher, Dickey learned to throw a knuckleball. In 2012, Dickey was selected to his first All-Star Game, won the Sporting News Pitcher of the Year Award, and became the first knuckleball pitcher to win the Cy Young Award after posting a 20–6 record with a league-leading 230 strikeouts. From 2013 to 2017, Dickey and Boston Red Sox pitcher Steven Wright were the only two active knuckleballers in the Majors.
