Reply to "Is baseball declining?"

infielddad10,000+ posts

Coach May,
My ears are ringing with what bbscout told me and posted on this site about scouting and finding players.
In a sense what he said was comforting and anxiety provoking since my questions to him were about a DIII kid getting drafted.
As best I can recall, his response and post was scouts get paid to find every kid who can play. If they don't, they get fired.
bbscout didn't candy coat most of his posts on this site. What he was saying was if a kid has the talent and tools to play in Mlb/Milb, scouts put their career on the line if they miss.
Their job/career is don't miss.
What he didn't need to say was if your son isn't drafted, his talent didn't warrant it in the eyes of the scouting community.
You can blame everyone and everything but baseball is a game of talent and eventually, every player and every parent finds that out.

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