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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.