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Originally Posted by damientheomen3
IIRC from discussions about Hunter's PT card last year (and I'm by no means a historical buff so ignore my post if it's way off base), someone said he was rated lower because of his groundball style coupled with a strong infield in his heyday. Not 100% sure it was Hunter that discussion was about.
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By that logic - and it is the logic of the sadly misguided "three true outcomes" view of pitching, which flies in the face of what pitchers from Warren Spahn to Sandy Koufax to Eddie Lopat to Christy Mathewson, have said about pitching since time began - then all the strikeout pitchers of this era will have to be devalued because batters are trying to hit the ball up, and so are striking out more often, leading to pitchers seeming to be more effective.
But thanks, at least this would explain it, especially given the twisted mentality that passes for baseball wisdom in the age of Big Data.