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Old 11-04-2009, 11:14 AM   #22 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Malleus Dei View Post
And that's the point: pitchers without a significant K-rate by age 26 tend to have much shorter careers that those who do. It's an observable, verifiable truth. End of story.
The key is "tend." There's no doubt you'll find exceptions. These aren't mathematical proofs or laws of nature.

Finding singular exceptions doesn't disprove the theory. Finding that all pitchers over a long stretch of time do not tend to fit this mold would disprove the theory.
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