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Baseball Scouts

Posted on: January 31, 2010 by admin

Baseball scouts are a dying breed. With the information super highway growing larger and becoming faster, teams do not have to have as many scouts looking for players any longer. Teams that once had say 50 scouts may only have a few now. They have seriously made some pretty extreme changes in how they do business. Players are now looked at not only on how they perform on the field but how they look statistically. Their size, weight, height, age, and so one come into play as well. Most MLB teams used to rely heavily on their scouts to find and seek out talent. Now the deal is that if a family in a rural area has a kid that can throw 95 miles an hour, they know he is valuable and more than likely the MLB teams already know about him and are scouting him. The key for scouts now may be making sure that teams get the right players that they need more than finding hidden talent. Even in other countries talent is no longer hidden. People just know when someone is good and more than likely the MLB knows as well.