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Yeah, as people have mentioned, the largest use of speed is how often they steal bases. It does have a factor in other places (it's a component of in-game baserunning, like when you're asked to send a runner, or infield hits, or stretching hits into extra bases).
Stealing as mentioned is sb%. So a guy like Donaldson is not very fast/doesn't try to steal much (low speed), but generally has a pretty high success rate (high stealing).
Baserunning is about instincts, so guys with high baserunning scores will tend to get doubled off bases less, and also be better at taking extra bases.
I agree that it's kind of annoying to see guys like Clemente or Mantle with low speed scores, but also keep in mind that we try to base historical ratings as much as possible on raw stats that we have, and unfortunately there's no public statcast running speed values going back to the 1950s, so we have to base the ratings on something.
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