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Originally Posted by Curve Ball Dave
His flyout rate would have predicted it too. Balls that used to clear the fence were caught at or near the warning track-a clear sign of a slower bat. Flyouts can be quantified and the rate is a pencil and paper calculation. If his flyout rate was up, his bat was getting slower. Knowing the exit velocity would have verified this, not uncovered it.
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I agree with you here. But you're still looking at the failures and ignoring the successful results. Successful results, solid hits, home runs, would still have exit velocities. And if scouts had that information, they could have viewed it and seen that DiMaggio's hard hit balls were not as hard hit as they used to be.
I think we're talking in circles and essentially saying the same things otherwise.