Scouts at games

Maybe they are not scouting pitchers, maybe the scouts can tell speed by sound and arm

action. Maybe they watch the parents radar guns.

Bob

Maybe he isn't there to see a pitcher?

We had several scouts at a high school tourney last week.

1 had a gun

3 were watching and taking notes.

The one who talked to a pitcher after the game had no gun....

Scouts work in teams. Different organizations. Same objective.

Bob

This was my first thought. When coaches/scouts came to watch my S they brought stopwatches to record his speed (HTF time ,1st to second time on a steal.)

My son was so slow they used a sundial.

Some scouts don't need a gun, but use stopwatches, getting pop times or times from home to first depending on who they are scouting.  I have seen scouts down the right field line pull out their phone and video a pitcher.   Maybe they have the velocity info they want and are there for a 2nd, 3rd, 10th look.

However, there is nothing like being at a high school or college game and watch 8-15-20 guns go up!

Funny story. Scouts were at our HS team's game a few weeks ago to see a few studs on the roster. Once the starter left the game (not the focus of the scouts) the middle reliever came in. I think the game was going into the 4th inning and they had seen several ABs by those players. I think there were 8 or so there. 

Our local MLB bureau guy saw them packing up and told them that that they may want to stay and see the middle guy. So they did. My wife said it was crazy, every pitch they had a video camera in one hand and radar in the other..so sometimes they have nothing and sometimes they do both!

Anyway, my son was the middle guy getting in a pen and struck out 5 of 6, hit 94 and had a blast. I guess the moral of the story is....you just never know who they are there to see and their presence isnt always for the reasons you suspect. 

BTW, there weren't many at our game vs the "then" nationally ranked #1 team in the US where we won. I "think" 3 regional cross checkers were there but they had no idea who my son was .....again..hahahah.....he threw a CG , 1 hit SO with 11ks that night. Who knows where this ride will take him but he's having fun with it.

shoveit4k's.....great story.  My son pitched and played MIF on his travel team last summer.  He normally came in to relieve a 6'5 lefty throwing 90+.  Big guy would throw 5 innings in front of as many as 30 coaches/scouts.  My son would come in...throw 2 warm up pitches at 82....then they got up and left.    I told him...."next game, throw your first warm up pitch with everything you've got...even if it flys the catcher and hits the backstop".  He did....guess what....87!!!   Highest velo he had had all summer up to that point.  Some guys left...but some stayed.  He was at 85-86 for 2 innings....and 2 D1's he had heard a little bit from called him later that day.  Didn't end up at either one, but as you said, you just never know....take ever opportunity you can find to show them what you have

^^^I echo Buckeye.  Several years ago, we had an average of 10-20 scouts at our high school games looking at a LHP that will most likely go 1st round this June.  

After one game, a scout asked our head coach where his SS had committed, and he said he wasn't, he was a sophomore.  That weekend keewartson was off to his first unofficial visit.  These scouts know the college coaches, too.

Also, if the team you are on doesn't have a stud being scouted, the TEAM YOU PLAY AGAINST may.  You never know who's watching.

About forty years ago a friend was "the other pitcher" in a sectional final pitching against a top prospect. He threw the hardest he had ever thrown, allowed one hit and struck out seventeen. He went from a very marginal prospect headed for D3 college ball to drafted in the top twenty rounds.