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Originally Posted by Syd Thrift
Depending on how far back you go, Movement can become almost meaningless. Like, who cares if you give up twice as many homeruns than average when the guy who led the league in the category hit 6 of them?
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True that! And hence my argument that context matters.
Though I will say that the context in which I have had successful low-movement pitchers is somewhere in between the dead-ball era and the current MLB climate. (Using statistical modifiers that range from the 1970's to the early 1990's.)