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Originally Posted by battists
In general, in OOTP:
Stuff correlates with strikeouts
Movement correlates with homeruns
Control correlates with walks
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Just to elaborate on this, studies have shown that pitchers don't have much impact on BABIP (batting average on balls in play). Note that is "not much" and not "zero" and some people do forget that. But fielding clearly has a significantly bigger effect than pitching on BABIP.
So the three most important ways pitchers have an impact are getting outs without balls in play (strikeouts), avoiding giving up baserunners without the ball needing to be put in play (avoiding walks) and not giving up home runs, which in all but very rare cases cannot be fielded.
Stuff therefore is mainly to keep down batting average allowed, control to keep down walks allowed, and movement (along with giving up ground balls and not fly balls) to limit homers allowed.
There also should be some
smaller ability for movement to cause lower BABIP and lower numbers of extra base hits. Fielding is significantly more important there than pitching, but pitching still matters-- just much less than previously thought-- in those; but I don't know if it does in OOTP.