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Originally Posted by Justinw303

I don't know if this is considered "major" enough to be listed here, but it struck me as odd enough that I figured I'd mention it.

Live Harrison Bader has a 58 speed rating. I'm not sure what you base your speed ratings on for current players, but according to MLB's Statcast Sprint Speed leaderboards, Bader is 8th out of 295 players with a minimum 50 recorded events. 7th out of 341 last year (minimum 25 events). He plays a solid CF and you even acknowledge that with a 98 OF range. How does a 58 in speed pass the eye test?

Trea Turner even manages to be underrated at an 85. He's been top 3, often #1, in sprint speed since his debut. Literally hasn't lost a step since his rookie season. Should be nowhere lower than a 95, but he's chilling at 85. It's not the size of the gap is his case, it's that there's a gap at all. He's Trea Turner. Someone should need to work up a full-on presentation to defend having his speed in the 80s.

Anyways, apologies again if this dispute is too petty for this thread. Maybe there could be a sticky thread for grievances like this? Something to ponder, thanks for your attention

I think I've heard this somewhere before, but I can't remember where on the forums it would be, but the speed stat, IIRC, doesn't correlate necessarily to "sprint speed". I think it's used in conjunction with the stealing stat, where the speed stat is the frequency of stealing bases, while the stealing stat is how successful someone would be at stealing bases. It seems weird, most definitely, but that's how I remember people talking about that in the past.

Someone please correct me if I'm wrong or off-base.