BTW, after 20-30 years of using sabermetrics as a "walker" to help me learn how to hobble around "scouting" players physically .... such as, watching HR development patterns over the years, against Piazza-Boone templates, to reach an opinion on Tui...
I can't fathom in a million years how you would separate one HS superstar from another.
Having seen maybe 250,000 pitches from the CF camera, I fancy that I can tell what is a good changeup and not, but ... to go see Matt Tuiasosopo over a weekend or two? Against 84 mph fastballs? And recognize that he's better than the ten other WA state players who looked just like he did?
I guess it's a flash here and there they see, a bit of batspeed here, a bit of fighting off a slider there, and they visualize the bansai tree.
It's not something that even most pro scouts are particularly great at, much less us non-athletes on the 'net :- )
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