How early do area scouts ask for a card to be filled out if they are interested?
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quote:Originally posted by Bob Sanders:
There was a older man sitting all alone with a tattered highschool baseball cap on that had a "V" on it. No sign that he worked for any organization on his jacket, hat or toting a speed gun in sight. We struck up a conversation about the scouts sitting in the stands. He chuckled about the young guys with all their paperwork in tow...then after a long interesting conversation about the economy, weather, and hunting --I asked him if he had a kid on the team...he said no, then hesitantly he said--- that he was a scout for the Colorado Rockies. I was shocked by this comment. I asked why he didn't have a gun...he said to me...I know what 90 looks like and what 95 looks like. He told me that he never wears anything that you could pick him out of a crowd that he was a scout to make sure parents don't track him down to ask any questions about Jr.---that he wants the players to NOT know that he is there so he gets a true evaluation of what kind of player and teammate the young man he is looking at truly is. Humans have a tendency to over perform when being watched. He said that he doesn't hand out anything until he is sure...that his job depends on it. I was impressed by his professionalism, and years of experience. He then asked if I had a kid on the team...I nodded our son's direction...and he smiled and said "we love his bat, and he has a live arm and soft hands" and perfect body type...We would just like to see him to get a hair faster. I smiled back at the man and did what every supportive parent should do ---I shut up----...and then stopped at Scheel's and bought a stop watch on the way home from the game :-)
quote:Originally posted by Pop Up Hitter dad:
piaa_ump, I heard scouts like to talk to umpires about the prospects, how they handle themselves. They get a lot of information on whos hot, etc. Has this happened to you?