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How Baseball's 20-80 Scouting Scale Works | BA Explains
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How Baseball's 20-80 Scouting Scale Works | BA Explains
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"Toolsy" ... "Top-of-Scale" ... "Double-Plus" ... these are all common terms used in the context of baseball's 20-80 scouting scale. But what do they mean?
On this edition of Baseball America Explains, BA Editor-in-Chief J.J. Cooper covers everything you need to know about baseball's most common evaluation system, from the origins of scouting to its current applications. Plus, this video contextualizes scouting with current MLB prospects, giving an idea of what tools baseball's future stars possess.
— Episode Chapters —
0:00 - The history of scouting reports in baseball
1:50 - What the scouting scale looks like today (20-80 scale)
2:57 - Explaining tools and how they are evaluated
4:57 - How projection works in scouting
7:58 - Similarities, differences in scouting around MLB
— BA's Top 100 Prospects —
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