Quote:
Originally Posted by Shake Appeal
Telling us things more precisely is literally the value of science. In baseball, specifically, it's worth millions of dollars to ball clubs.
Compare with weather forecasting. "I knew it was going to rain today because I walked outside and water was beginning to fall out of the sky" is not as useful as "Data suggest it's going to rain three days from now because we're tracking a developing warm front."
|
I'm not sure where you go the idea that I'm against exit velocity. Take a deep breath and re-read my posts.
My only argument against it in OOTP is that we don't know for a fact that it actually affects the game. We know for a fact that pitch speed in OOTP has zero effect on outcome. We need to know that exit velocity has an effect before we can consider it an important metric to be included in the game.
In terms of real life baseball, I wholeheartedly agree that it's useful.