joemktg posted:Goosegg posted:One big challenge for the scout is to determine whether the player is (a) slot round material, (b) what the player's number is, (c) whether the two match up close enough.
Agree with Goosegg. And let me add this...
All factors at your disposal are a part of your overall effort to create leverage, so it's how you position yourself using the leverage at your disposal. Some hypotheticals:
- Player is straight A, high ACT/SAT going to UVA. Given UVA's hold on its recruits, the club knows it will take a lot to free up that player. The family/adviser uses that as an advantage.
- Player with poor grades from below median income going to JUCO. Given that a JUCO player can leave after the first year, it's leverage, i.e., "if we don't believe the offer is good, we'll go to JUCO."
NOTE: all is meaningless without competition for that player from other clubs! So what's the action item? Make sure you invite everyone to winter and spring workouts! Why? So that the scouts can see each other. They ALL know each other, but they don't know who is looking at whom. That information will be in their weekly scouting reports, e.g., saw player X on Wednesday, workout also attended by Yankees, Red Sox, Tigers, Orioles, etc.
Joe, thx for the info,
this is the first time ive heard of this, "Make sure you invite everyone to winter and spring workouts" how does that work?