Pro Scouts at practice

not unusal, you may often find a underclassman better than the prospect MLB scouts are looking at right now

Scout came by my boys practice this past Saturday looking at our Sr. CF. Also took down the name of a Jr. LHP. That made his day.

Always play like it was your last game you never know who might be watching

Back when I was a freshman in High School, 5 or 6 seniors on my HS football team got scholarships to play football at D1/2/3 schools due to the fact that our Senior Quarterback was so heavily recruited......Scouts came to see him and saw some other talent....

Worked out pretty good for the HS quarterback as well...

Joe Montana
Ringgold HS
Class of 1974

Notre Dame
San Francisco 49ers
Kansas City Chiefs
NFL Hall of Fame

I always tell my athletes, "You never know who is watching".
The guy in the stands eating his lunch could be a scout, a college coach, or the dad of the girl you want to take to the prom.
If you take a day off (physically or mentally) and that is the only day a guy sees you, then that is all he has to remember.

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I always tell my athletes, "You never know who is watching".
The guy in the stands eating his lunch could be a scout, a college coach, or the dad of the girl you want to take to the prom.
If you take a day off (physically or mentally) and that is the only day a guy sees you, then that is all he has to remember.

This sums it up pretty well. You never know who's watching you.

zg

When son was a freshman we had a senior player, JJ Hardy, now with the Brewers. The scouts were numerous....have never again to this day seen so many scouts, and at so many games......and still to this day I wonder how JJ held his cool, with all those eyes, and stop watches on him....but guess that's what makes him who he is. Of course other team members benefited from all those scouts in attendance....but if I had a choice....would rather not know the scouts were there.....and as the other posters say...play every game well.

Quick story....when my son was in high school (plays in college now), he was at an invitational in Colorado where they were selecting the candidates for the Junior Olympic Team. Afterwards, I was talking to our coach who was in the booth along with the one who was screening the kids. As the screener was scratching off names from his list, our coach asked what he was doing. The screener said, "that one threw his helmet", "that one didn't run it out to first", etc.

As they say...you never know who is watching....

beechykeen...yup, it's called make up.

I know some scouts who have crossed kids off their list because they used their foot to flip up a helmet off the ground rather than bend over and pick it up.

Scouts are people, they have their pet peeves just like anyone else.

Went to a High School game the other night, there were 35 scouts in attendance.

The kid they were there to see had the flu and shouldn't have been on the mound.

He sucked it up, and cruised at 94-95 all night.

All my son could say was "I've never seen so many radar guns in one place in my life"

I responded, "Me neither"

KellerDad,

Was that Italiano you are referring to? If you'd rather email pgjerry@qwest.net

PGStaff,

Yep, that was Craig. Keller played Flower Mound last Thursday. Craig is dating one of my best friends daughter, so we sat together during the game.

Boy can sure throw hard.