10-02-2009, 03:27 PM
I'd be interested in knowing what people like Sipes, Ruby, tom, etc. think about Keith Law.
To some, he'd come off as the ultimate stat-geek, a Harvard-educated one, at that. But his JOB is "scout." He's literally one of those guys with a radar gun who goes to high school games, who used to work for the Blue Jays, who hangs out with all the other scouts, who was talking about Strasburg's arm motion in graphic detail before I'd even heard of the guy.
I mean he's a SCOUT. But he also incorporates more modern stats into his thinking.
Would you guys think that he's acceptable, or is he a kind of ruining the game because he knows what VORP means? Like many of you, I'm not sure how I feel about trying to quantify everything in a beautiful, pastoral game, but I kind of like Law's approach.
To some, he'd come off as the ultimate stat-geek, a Harvard-educated one, at that. But his JOB is "scout." He's literally one of those guys with a radar gun who goes to high school games, who used to work for the Blue Jays, who hangs out with all the other scouts, who was talking about Strasburg's arm motion in graphic detail before I'd even heard of the guy.
I mean he's a SCOUT. But he also incorporates more modern stats into his thinking.
Would you guys think that he's acceptable, or is he a kind of ruining the game because he knows what VORP means? Like many of you, I'm not sure how I feel about trying to quantify everything in a beautiful, pastoral game, but I kind of like Law's approach.
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