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Originally Posted by Curve Ball Dave
Seriously, let's say we knew Jimmy Foxx's average exit velocity. That would have told us what about him that we didn't already know?
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This is simply the wrong question to be asking.
A good example of how Exit Velocity is useful:
Player A has a great season, hits 40 HRs and has a top-10 ISO.
The following year, Player A's HRs drop to 28 and his ISO drops.
You could look at exit velocity (including distribution) to try to help determine if he simply had some bad luck in year 2, or if there was really a reason to think his power output had dropped.
You're right, we don't need exit velocity to tell us that Jimmy Foxx was a great player. That's why it's not a relevant question.