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It makes perfect sense that the DP rating should have an insignificant impact on a player's ability to turn a DP because we don't really have any idea who is good or bad at it in real life.
It's just like chemistry. Some people are undoubtedly good/bad for team chemistry. But, outside of anecdotal evidence, we have no way of identifying who they are. And we cannot in any way measure the effects of chemistry on team wins and losses. So, in OOTP, chemistry is a thing but it has a relatively small effect. Seems reasonable to me.
We can say that Bill Mazeroski was great at turning two, but we don't really know for sure and any attempt to place a number on it is guesswork. DP totals depend on so, so many factors including, but not limited to, number of opposing baserunners, opposition SB attempts, opposition hit'n'run frequency, pitcher groundball percentage, quality of fellow fielders, defensive positioning, and precise batted ball location. With present day Statcast data we can begin to measure some of these things. But for historical data, forget about it.
I think OOTP is correct to downplay the significance of this particular skill.
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