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Originally Posted by Cinnamon J. Scudworth
I think that's probably a significant part of it. Pitching prospects tend to be underrated by the "favor ability" scouts, in my experience.
I don't use OSA ratings, but I do try to get "neutral" or "favor tools" scouts.
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I think you're right - this essentially means that if you hire a "favor ability" scout you're handicapping yourself or other teams handicap themselves being unable to see potential and preferring to take 2 star potential guys because they're a little ahead at present of the 4 star potential guys as seen by the favor tools scouts
Edit: when i played with the Giants i had a highly favor tools scout - this was before i conducted this draft experiment with the Dbacks - I saw a lefty pitcher (Bryan Hudson) that was highly rated and drafted him - later he showed up on the top 100 along with a few others and my minors ranking improved; -
this brings up the question - is the OSA actually a "favor tools/highly favor tools" scouting service?