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I'm increasingly of the mind that the scout's written assessments of players are pretty much worthless and should be ignored. You can get completely contradictory assessments in the same breath, like "Overall = Lacks the skills to compete at the major league level" and then "Power = Could really do some damage at the major league level". Um, OK.
Other times the written assessments combined with the overall rating (5 stars or whatever system) seem to flat out contradict the ability ratings the scout has given the player. I recently had a young 1B in AAA doing real damage -- OPS over 1.000 and 4.1 WAR, pretty much over the course of the whole season. His Contact / Power / Eye ratings were solid. But my scout had him overall rated at a single star with potential of 1.5 stars, with the overall "Destined to be a career minor leaguer" assessment. It was doubly weird because this 1B-man had been in my minors system for a few seasons and had done nothing but compete solidly if not really well. Yet his overall ranking from the scout kept *decreasing* to the current 1 star. I just don't get it. Bug?
Overall I like scouting and don't want to turn it off. I'm just more and more trying not to be biased by the scout's written assessments and stick to the ability ratings and stats.
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