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I'm surprised that speed isn't a much more "raw" number that things like outfield range and bunt for a hit abilities would be at least partly based upon. Extracting something like speed out of only one tiny aspect of the game seems a bit counter intuitive. I understand using stolen bases to help get a speed value but wouldn't it make sense to also use defensive metrics as well as general base running metrics to tease out an appropriate value? Why is speed so directly tied to base stealing when in the real MLB it probably has a lot more effect on defense than offense?
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