re: Annual Official LA HS Baseball Season-long Thread

There are more things to scout than a teams top pitcher in a 3 game series. The ace can only win one game. Scouting ways to pitch to your batters is more likely the scenario.

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75 percent of all these players stuff for the last 3-4 years is online. Why the need to scout? you can scout a kid all you want when he throwing Low 90's 65-75 percent strikes and has an era of .385 and faced everyone's ace and locked down everyone allowing 3 ER all year. oh and he's beat Catholic twice in their 5 loses in 2 years. You cant stop that by scouting can you?

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its not him they are just scouting. there is the bunt coverages, timing the catcher, timing the slide step, timing of the pick off. also strength and weakness of each batter. lots and lots of things to scout including tale by both pitcher and catcher or even tale for a pickoff.

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75 percent of all these players stuff for the last 3-4 years is online.

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and much of that is garbage, or a year or so old. And the stuff from paid services is all over the place. Catcher pop times 1.95-2.24


And you still don’t know how well the pitcher holds you own, time to plate, is that throw even on the right side of the bag? Then the myriad of situational stuff that may reveal weaknesses.

And I don’t know the lady, but I bet a woman scouting is twice as meticulous as a man.