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Originally Posted by Malleus Dei
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.
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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.