Report: Dickey wants to pitch in 2018, has multiple offers

R.A. Dickey isn't filing his retirement papers just yet.

After the Atlanta Braves declined his $8-million option in October, the 43-year-old knuckleballer was expected to call it quits, but Dickey wants to pitch this season, according to Ken Rosenthal of The Athletic, and the former Cy Young Award winner has multiple contract offers, too.

Dickey, a father of four, still hasn't decided if he'll come back for another season, however.

In 2017, after signing a one-year, $8-million deal with the Braves to be closer to his Nashville home following a four-year run in Toronto, Dickey authored a 4.26 ERA (100 ERA+) and 1.37 WHIP over 31 starts, logging a team-high 190 innings while finishing second on the staff in WAR (1.6).

Though he hasn't been to replicate the success he enjoyed in 2012, when he crafted a 2.73 ERA over 233 2/3 innings and led the National League in strikeouts en route to the Cy Young Award, Dickey has been remarkably consistent over the last half-decade, averaging 32 starts per season while also crafting an ERA within five percentage points of league average each year after adjusting for park effects.