Bof: After going through a couple of camps and a number of other events this summer I scratch my head and wonder how two programs can rate my son at the same event very differently. It seems to me that this whole evaluation of a player is very very subjective at best for some programs.
^this reminds me of a great story that was told to me by a friend of mine who coached for the Cardinals in the minor leagues. There was an old time coach (name escapes me; he passed away about 3 years ago) who came to the Cardinals to work with the younger players every spring training. He related this story to my friend one day when we were talking about the subjective evaluation of players...
Stan Musial was down in spring training for the first time. He hadn't hit particularly well that spring and of course as everyone knows while he was a serviceable fielder he wasnt know for his glove or his arm. Couple all this with his quirky stance and when time came for the brain trust to assign the players the consensus was just to let Stan go! Well the mgr for one of the Cardinal minor league affiliates in PA said well I need someone to throw batting practice just let him take the trip back up north with us and we can drop him off at his home in PA when we get there. Well as it turns out Stan got to play a bit on the trip back north and impressed enough to earn a spot on the minor league team.. 3630 hits later and the rest as they say is history.
Any scout can spot a 'tool" player... but anyone who says it isnt a subjective process and if you can play they will find you just is not looking at the history of the game.