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...the thing that Moyer lost since 2003 that has made him less of a pitcher is not the velocity...it's the feather-touch he used to have on his change-up.  If you watch him pitch today, his command is a lot less solid...he misses up with the slop a lot more than he should and since he always had zero margin for error, any loss in his fine motor skills at the fingertips (which would, as anyone who played basketball knows, come from fatigue...Moyer wears down faster these days) will have disastrous consquences for him.
Give Moyer 5 mph on his 2003 velocity, and I'm willing to bet he strikes out a few more batters but it doesn't improve his results much.  Not unless his average fastball gets up to 89-90 where hitters have to start tming it instead of sitting in between and swatting at the change-up.