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I believe that the game does have baked into it the ability for certain kinds of pitchers - mainly knuckleballers TMK - to affect their BABIP. The game *might* even have something build in for one pitch specialists, but I'm not sure (Mariano Rivera is a good example of a guy who gave up a lower-than-you'd-expect BABIP; as you'll remember, he was noted for throwing cutters, cutters, and more cutters). Outside of that there is a small correlation IRL between K rate and BABIP (i.e. the higher your K rate, the lower your BABIP) but it's not very large at all (I remember looking this up for Nolan Ryan once upon a time, for example, and determined that his career BABIP was all of like 10 points lower than the league average once you factored in the parks he played in).
But yeah, by and large if you have a guy go 20-6 for you with a 2.40 ERA and it's built off of a .200 BABIP, expect a lot of regression to the mean in the next season, both IRL and in OOTP.
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