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Originally Posted by NoOne
this type of data is meant to be used in bulk.
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And my point is if it went away tomorrow we can still come to confident conclusions about players and their ability to hit the ball hard because we have other tools. To give the example of Kris Bryant from another post, last year he had his lowest career home rate (way down from 2016). At the same time he hit doubles at a rate much higher than previous seasons. Given these two pieces of data, do you as a thinking logical intelligent person believe we can conclude that he wasn't hitting the ball as hard (still hard enough to find the gaps for doubles) and as often as before? Or, would you argue that we can
only determine that Bryant wasn't hitting the ball as hard and often with AEV data, as there are no other tools at our disposal? If AEV showed a decline last year, all that data is doing is validating what we saw in other data. If you know the actual MPH down the tenth it won't change what the other data showed-a decline in power last year. In other words, AEV didn't tell what we didn't already know from other data.