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Yeah...that was the authors summarizing somebody else's study...Does it? I read this which seems to conflict with your interpretation.
"The aforementioned results suggest that consistent movement by a pitcher plays an important role in maintaining accuracy during pitching."
The particular study @ArmWhip referred to hypothesized that the end result they were looking at here (hand positioning in a pitched ball) can be made consistent in the face of (unavoidable) neurological fluctuation of body movements through what they are calling covariation of body degrees of freedom (in this study joint angles). Basically you can "stabilize" the end result in the face of variability through compensation.
With respect to the topic at hand, whether the development of these compensations (covariations) at lower arm speed is relevant for a game speed pitch I am not sure.
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