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Originally Posted by Left-handed Badger
At least 2. Ray Kremer from the Pirates of the 1920s I believe on his bullpen page on baseball-reference being specifically mentioned as "anti-BABIP" and consistently having lower than expected totals in that regard.
Plus somebody mention before here I believe that most knuckleballers are exceptions.
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I think people have brought up all the major exceptions--knuckleballers are lower, groubndballers are higher, etc. I don't think the Tippett study has been posted yet, but it has lots of awesome graphs so it's always worth multiple looks:
http://www.diamond-mind.com/articles/ipavg2.htm
Good pitchers consistently post better-than-expected BABIPs. Aside from the pitchers Tippett looks at, Mariano Rivera has always done it too. And I think as the HITfx data becomes more prevalent, we're gonna discover a lot more meaningful relationships for BABIP in the next couple years.