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Kudos for PG for once again leading the way on new methods of evaluation.  The recent addition of the 10 yard timing will hopefully help identify sleepers like my son.  Some guys just plain run less than exciting 60 times, but they can out steal or out base-run just about anyone and have great movement to the ball in the field.  Proven last weekend for us.  We went to a college workout and son ran a 7.1 but blew away the guy next to him in the first 35 yards.  The other guy ended up running a 6.8.  After running the bases in a game later that day everyone asked son if he ran a 6.5 and he just laughed and said no, but he does run a 1.41 in the 10 yards.  Although its too late for him being a 2015, this measurement will surely hope others like him going forward (helpfully little Bro) cause those short burst genetics are strong in the family.  At 1.41 he would rank #1 in the PG National times.  At 7.1 he is a nobody...

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I'd sort of like to see the 30 timed also.  2017 has a pretty good 60 but I imagine he would be a tad slow in the 10.  I get the impression that the 10 is REALLY important for infielders but was wondering if something a little longer might be appropriate.  Maybe they could time them in 5 year increments.  Which brings me to my second point - in another 10 years, they will simply place a tag on the player and then track them on every play.  A player's movement will be tracked in relation to the baseball in play.  When they start measuring both speed and reaction time or when a guy breaks to steal that will tell the real story.  They are doing some of this in the MLB but not sure exctly how these stats are getting compiled and distributed but have to belive the teams themselves are alreadying digging into this year's stuff.

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