2020dad posted:Consultant posted:4 seamer,
same story, scout was Joe Butler and Duane Schaeffer.
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Ok no clue who Joe Butler is but as a long suffering white Sox fan I am more than familiar with the atrocious record Duane Schaefer brings to the table. I guess maybe he should have been doing something other than listening to the sound of the bat on the telephone! But seriously while these type of stories are cute and all it demonstrates exactly what's wrong with baseball rather than what's right. The tobacco spitters in full force. "I know a player when I see one". "I could pick my team when they walk off the bus". On and on. Refusal to entertain science and technology. And these same scouts go years without success - like Schaefer - and keep their jobs forever. Have you looked at the amateur drafts under him? As a Sox fan I have. Do it sometime. It is a shockingly poor record and yet he was there forever. I will take measurables, technology and sabermetrics any day over a 1000 tobacco spitting scouts.
I think MLB agrees with you.