Just curious if this hire is a sign of things to come? Anyone have thoughts or insights, opinions? I would've thought Billy Beane would have been the 1st to make this move.
http://www.baseballamerica.com...ins-full-time-scout/
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Could be. It's fair to say Amanda grew up steeped in the business. Her dad has held several scouting jobs including crosschecker, Scouting Director, and asst to the GM. As a fastpitch player, Amanda was always in our facility working with her dad on her hitting. Then she began attending camps and practices with the club boys including my son. Then she interned with the M's and helped run their Scout team tryouts and Mariner's Cup competition. She's spent a lot of time working closely with Aaron Horrocks who is one of the longtime youth baseball development guys in the Seattle area. Helping with teams and recruiting new players to the program. At 22, she has more close baseball experience than just about anyone who doesn't actually play the game.
So that's a long way of saying she plied a pathway, but it was perfect for her and experience growing up and through college. I'm not sure how readily that context repeats itself elsewhere, but I am sure there is a supply of women with the apptitude to scout.
The As hired a female coach who worked last falls instructs.
The Dodgers had a female scout at the Cape this past summer. Kinza Baad, currently a UVA softball player.
90% of scouting is about how hard you work and how well you use your time. Figuring out who the most talented players are is perhaps the easiest part. The hard part is finding them and seeing them. Though finding them and even seeing them has become much easier than it once was.
Outside of pregnancy and possibly experience there is no reason a female can't be a great scout.
Before anyone goes crazy about the pregnancy comment consider this... Your area scout goes on maternity leave during the spring. This simply can't happen for 3 months before the draft. Guess good planning would solve that issue.
Anyway, I think it is a good thing getting females involved in the game.
PGStaff posted:90% of scouting is about how hard you work and how well you use your time. Figuring out who the most talented players are is perhaps the easiest part. The hard part is finding them and seeing them. Though finding them and even seeing them has become much easier than it once was.
Outside of pregnancy and possibly experience there is no reason a female can't be a great scout.
Before anyone goes crazy about the pregnancy comment consider this... Your area scout goes on maternity leave during the spring. This simply can't happen for 3 months before the draft. Guess good planning would solve that issue.
Anyway, I think it is a good thing getting females involved in the game.
Maternity leave is a relative term. It depends highly on your type of job and who else can do your job.
My "maternity leave" was part time, at best, for about 14 days, then non-existent after that. Was I entitled to 3 months, yes. Could the company and my livelihood handle me being away that long, no. I didn't whine, I put on my big girl pants and did what needed to be done. I imagine many women do what they have to do in those situations.