@PABaseball posted:Or the PG grades are completely meaningless and irrelevant. The sole purpose of those grades is to get people to come back (pay) to improve them.
There is zero value in their grading system. It is entirely useless.
Crazy talk on this board! I guess those MLB grades are useless as well? They are based on "tools" and those "tools" are based on data points.
PG's grades are based on data they collect.
Rankings are not the same as grades. Neither are rankings leading up to the MLB Draft. And every baseball media outlet has their own ranking.
But of course metrics aren't what make great players. We all know that already. But if you don't have the metrics (tools) it doesn't really matter what a "great" player you may be...
When I coached Little League I drafted players, not tools. And it worked pretty well. That's because my draft pool was pretty small (local community) and the players were age 12 or younger. If my draft pool consisted of the entire country I would have been able to draft "players" who also possessed "tools".