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Originally Posted by Syd Thrift

It’s being added to pitchers primarily for historical purposes, because from what I can gather, a few pitch to contact guys always underperform (Jim Palmer for example, who I still think you’d rectify just by making the defenses behind him better) and a couple other situations where for example extreme power pitchers don’t get the 10-15 point boost they get IRL (I’m told they do get something, but nobody wants to say what, it’s not based purely on overall stuff, and it appears to not be enough for guys like Warren Spahn and Tom Seaver).

TBH I think it’s partially a sop to historical players who don’t want to hear that their faves were a little lucky back in the day and partially a papering over of other issues with historical play. I’m sure it’ll still be popular amongst a certain crowd (chiefly that crowd who didn’t like it when OOTP went with the DIPS model in the first place and who continue to insist that some guys can just lower BABIP in spite of evidence).

Gotcha, thanks.