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Originally Posted by kidd_05_u2
Fan: Hey chief scout for the Rangers, how would Jacob deGrom rate as a reliever?
Scout: I have no clue! I would need to watch him pitch out of the bullpen first!
Yeah that makes sense.
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Well, it does and it doesn't. The scouting grades are not usually wildly different, so yes, you might have a difference of 5 or 10 points usually on the 20-80 scale. 10 points is actually significant...5 not as much. But there needs to be a strategic element to scouting, and so if it takes a scout a few days longer to let you know, so be it.
Scouting is so dumbed down as it is. I mean, we really should have separate scouts for Major Leagues, Minor Leagues, International Leagues (although less now I guess) and Amateurs. We already have these as 4 desperate categories, so why not have some more scouts for immersion and strategy purposes? Why not be able to assign scouts to different geographical areas? I'm just brainstorming aloud.
For some reason scouting in OOTP has always gotten the "short shrift" compared to say a game like FM.