Baseball Talent Scouts

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Summary: Learn why professional and competitive baseball teams often employ scouts to find players that they want to recruit or sign with expert tips and advice on baseball rules and basics in this free online baseball video clip.

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Baseball Talent Scouts

BEN GRAHAM: We're going to take a look now at the talent scouts. Now, these guys you definitely don't see or at least you don't know that you've seen them. You often see them captured on television. They will sit right behind the dugout watching various players. The talent scouts' primary responsibility is to travel to collegiate NCAA games, also to travel to high school baseball games to rate the players they see on the field. If a hitter is a five-tool player, if he's got a weakness in his swing, it's his job to research and evaluate each one of the players that the general manager is considering to draft. And the general manager is going to rely heavily on his wisdom and his reports in determining who to take in the upcoming draft. Also talent scouts are sent around the league to evaluate the competition, to build scouting reports so that the team will know the tendencies of various players, also to advise the GM on which potential players they may want to trade for. The talent scout can be sent to a minor league team within the organization to evaluate who is worthy of being called up to the show and who needs to be left down for a while. And the talent scout can also be used to evaluate the team's on-the-field talent to find out who may be expendable and who may be absolutely necessary for the continued success of the team. So the talent scout is a very, very important job because it helps build the team for the future, and the GM and the manager rely heavily on their wisdom and their scouting reports.