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Originally Posted by CBeisbol

Zone Rating is tracked by the game.
Zone Rating, in real life, uses batted ball locations

I don't think, but I'm not sure, that the game tracks batted balls.

So, if they can fake Zone Rating, by, likely, giving better defensive players a higher probability of a high Zone Rating, then they can fake a pitch framing metric in the same way.

The question, then, obviously, is how useful is it if it's faked.

Yes, there are ball locations in OOTP. So Zone Rating is not faked.

Originally Posted by CBeisbol

As Argonaut said, and, I believe, showed with a study, this absolutely has an effect on the results of the game, if it has an effect that can be measured, it can be reflected in a stat

You're misunderstanding what I'm saying. I don't deny that pitch framing is a big aspect of real baseball. But it measures an aspect of real baseball - pitch location - that currently doesn't exist in OOTP. You can't measure something that doesn't exist. And providing a fake measurement, as you allude to above, would be misleading and pointless.