Which would you rather have as YOUR scout?

[naturaldopamine]

Kubota, the Scout with a great reputation
OR
Hahn, the GM with a fair reputation




???




I'm the Expos in my online league and our budget is pathetic so this is a huge 5 year commitment. I think Hahn would make the better scout - and he's 7 years younger - and cheaper too. Not sure how important 'reputation' really is, anyway. Thanks for insight.

[AJFO]

Originally Posted by naturaldopamine

Kubota, the Scout with a great reputation
OR
Hahn, the GM with a fair reputation




???




I'm the Expos in my online league and our budget is pathetic so this is a huge 5 year commitment. I think Hahn would make the better scout - and he's 7 years younger - and cheaper too. Not sure how important 'reputation' really is, anyway. Thanks for insight.

I'll bite.

I'd go Hahn if I was a small-market GM. Happy trails over in Montreal!

[pgjocki]

For a scout on a rebuilding team I go for as high as possible because you can't afford to miss on prospects and when evaluating trades.

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[naturaldopamine]

so the fact that he's a GM - and not a scout - shouldn't matter at all? I guess that's my question here

[Tony820]

Originally Posted by naturaldopamine

so the fact that he's a GM - and not a scout - shouldn't matter at all? I guess that's my question here

I've wondered that question as well. My last few saves, I've always ended up with a former GM as my head scout (Theo was a popular choice of mine previously).

Seemed to work out well for me, but I'm sure it's different for others...

[naturaldopamine]

Originally Posted by Tony820

I've wondered that question as well. My last few saves, I've always ended up with a former GM as my head scout (Theo was a popular choice of mine previously).

Seemed to work out well for me, but I'm sure it's different for others...

and everything seemed to work out just fine?


pretty sure it doesn't make any difference if my scout has a background of GM or not. But it would be great to see some hard evidence

[Tony820]

Originally Posted by naturaldopamine

and everything seemed to work out just fine?


pretty sure it doesn't make any difference if my scout has a background of GM or not. But it would be great to see some hard evidence

Yeah, Theo I believe is listed as legendary for amateur scouting. He worked out very well for me.

[Tony820]

Also should note in my small experience with it, when you hire a GM to be your scout, I've never seen them resign as scouting director once their original deal runs out. They want to go back to being a GM...

[jimmysthebestcop]

Reputation doesn't mean anything. Its their individual ranks in the scouting categories.

I've even seen pitching coach with ranks in the gm category.

Plus higher favor tools is so much more accurate then ability.

[naturaldopamine]

Originally Posted by jimmysthebestcop

Reputation doesn't mean anything. Its their individual ranks in the scouting categories.

I've even seen pitching coach with ranks in the gm category.

Plus higher favor tools is so much more accurate then ability.

That's why it came down to those two! Thanks y'all I'm just gonna hire the fair rep GM I think he will be better for Montreal, and cheaper.

[jimmysthebestcop]

Originally Posted by naturaldopamine

That's why it came down to those two! Thanks y'all I'm just gonna hire the fair rep GM I think he will be better for Montreal, and cheaper.

Oh wow I didn't see the image they were so small lol

[naturaldopamine]

Originally Posted by jimmysthebestcop

Oh wow I didn't see the image they were so small lol

Yeah I went with Hahn the GM... fingers crossed

[jimmysthebestcop]

I put the most weight into Minors. Even though I have a full universe Foreign Scouting is very limited. You will know mostly who the good July Int Amateur Free Agents are from OSA and what they are asking for. If they are asking for 4 million most likely one of the top candidates asking for 500k then not.

And even with the foreign leagues in 21 I've noticed a lot of posting. My first 2 seasons there were probably 20 players posted from around the world. I don't think i had 20 combined from OOTPb 18/19/20 all together lol. Most of the time the Int free agents you can sign normally are either already good and have stat lines or are real young and you are going with ratings or throwing darts. In either case I don't think being better and Scouting International helps much.

Even scouting Amateurs for the draft is kind of overrated. If you are good team you will be picking near last anyway. So is it really helping you that much? Probably not.

I rate Minors the highest. Because I am either trading for minor league guys or I am looking to see who is developing on my squads. Also I feel Major league scouting is underrated. The better it is the more you can tell if those young mlb players who have under 3 years MLB time are developing or getting ready to explode into all stars and when those older guys are about to hit a wall even before their stat line starts to show it.

But yeah the most important thing is probably highly favors tools lol. Where anything besides highly favor tools you would probably be better off just going OSA.

Not sure if anyone has done testing but its probably weird their scouting preference has more influence on their overall scouting ability then their so called scouting ability ratings.

[naturaldopamine]

Just hired GM Hahn as my Scout in two separate online leagues. All in !!