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Sunday, March 23, 2008

Scouting

By , 06:10 AM

Granted, it was not a formal survey, but shouldn’t scouts be able to do a MUCH better job than this?  I mean, can’t your Dad or you uncle have done as good a job as the scouts in choosing these players?  You can argue that the various defensive metrics quoted do NOT accurately represent the players’ true defensive value (yeah, right), but you can’t argue with the other metrics, like baserunning, basestealing, and bunting.  The metrics discussed in this article DEFINE a player’s value in that area.  Seriously, does/should any GM/team pay ANY attention to what scouts think of a player’s defense, arm, bunting, speed, baserunning, basestealing, etc., as in this list?

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