May 8, 201312 yr The HOF has made a huge public database of scouting reports throughout the years. This is awesome: http://scouts.baseballhall.org/ Frank Thomas in 1988: http://scouts.baseballhall.org/report?repo...yerid=thomafr04 Edited May 8, 201312 yr by Eminor3rd
May 8, 201312 yr Author Some highlights from Frank Thomas reports: ".250 hitter TOPS if that but will hit HR. 20 in a bad year" "If his defense improves, could go in the first three rounds" "One huge person"
May 8, 201312 yr Author QUOTE (Jordan4life @ May 8, 2013 -> 12:16 PM) Wow. This is pretty cool. Where did you find this? Dave Cameron from FanGraphs highlighted it: http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/link-the-in...uting-database/
May 8, 201312 yr Author QUOTE (Marty34 @ May 8, 2013 -> 01:17 PM) 102 reports from Doug Laumann. Jorge Posada: "Could be a valuable late inning guy that could fill in a couple games here and there." Darryl Strawberry: "Would not want this guy in our organization for obvious reasons. Baseball skills dictate he could be used as a LH DH." These are really fun. Scouting must be hard. Edited May 8, 201312 yr by Eminor3rd
May 8, 201312 yr QUOTE (Eminor3rd @ May 8, 2013 -> 02:47 PM) Jorge Posada: "Could be a valuable late inning guy that could fill in a couple games here and there." Darryl Strawberry: "Would not want this guy in our organization for obvious reasons. Baseball skills dictate he could be used as a LH DH." These are really fun. Scouting must be hard. Strawberrys report was from 1995.
May 8, 201312 yr QUOTE (Harry Chappas @ May 8, 2013 -> 04:03 PM) Anyone notice the scouts name and is it the Washington GM? From Wikipedia: Rizzo became an assistant coach at the University of Illinois. Larry Himes, the scout who drafted Rizzo, became the general manager of the Chicago White Sox, and he hired Rizzo as a scout for the Upper Midwest region. He also scouted for the Boston Red Sox. Rizzo joined the Arizona Diamondbacks when the franchise was created in 1998, and served as the Director of Scouting for the Diamondbacks from 2000 to 2006.
May 8, 201312 yr QUOTE (Eminor3rd @ May 8, 2013 -> 10:06 AM) The HOF has made a huge public database of scouting reports throughout the years. This is awesome: http://scouts.baseballhall.org/ Frank Thomas in 1988: http://scouts.baseballhall.org/report?repo...yerid=thomafr04 Pretty cool. Mike Rizzo was the scout.
May 10, 201312 yr Mark Buehrle - "BA pick move" "Has some projection" "Feel that he will be a fringe MLB guy"
May 10, 201312 yr 1985 - Randy Johnson - Montreal Expos scout.... "ML fastball, but curve-slider pitch is too big. Doesn't have enough consistency to be a major leaguer, although he has the arm"
May 10, 201312 yr Also, kind of funny that another report I saw on some no name pitcher, the scout says "Has above average velocity (88-89 mph)". Lol, back in 1985, high-80's was above average?
May 10, 201312 yr QUOTE (Chilihead90 @ May 10, 2013 -> 02:33 PM) Also, kind of funny that another report I saw on some no name pitcher, the scout says "Has above average velocity (88-89 mph)". Lol, back in 1985, high-80's was above average? Pitchers were using PEDs probably more frequently than position players. Also, many of the guys who you might think or the stadium gun shows throw in the low 90s, aren't really. They are juiced up a bit. Also, if it were a HS pitcher throwing in the high 80s, they would probably project him to get into the 90s, and finally, yes, back 30 years ago or so, there were only a few guys on a staff that threw 90+. Now it's just the opposite. Guys are throwing harder these days, no question about it.
May 10, 201312 yr QUOTE (Dick Allen @ May 10, 2013 -> 02:47 PM) Pitchers were using PEDs probably more frequently than position players. Also, many of the guys who you might think or the stadium gun shows throw in the low 90s, aren't really. They are juiced up a bit. Also, if it were a HS pitcher throwing in the high 80s, they would probably project him to get into the 90s, and finally, yes, back 30 years ago or so, there were only a few guys on a staff that threw 90+. Now it's just the opposite. Guys are throwing harder these days, no question about it. Well, he was 22, drafted in the 5th RD, and as his scouting report accurately stated, he may die in A-Ball if he doesn't get a good coach. And he was right, he never made it out of A-Ball. Another guy on that same scouting report is listed as throwing his fastball at 83. Yikes.
May 10, 201312 yr Author QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ May 8, 2013 -> 02:57 PM) Strawberrys report was from 1995. Yeah, I just thought it was interesting that he put his personal opinion of his make-up in the report. Not surprising, just made me think about how these guys have to grade the tools but also try to decide if the personality will allow the player to work out, too. I remember seeing Strawberry around then play with the Columbus Clippers as he was making his "comeback."
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