Scouting article

[gunnarthor]

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/baseball-scouts-use-numbers-too/

 

Pretty easy read but it features Joe Mauer and scouting grades.

[biggentleben]

The part on Bo was very interesting.  I've done my fair share of speculating on scouting grades, so this was a good read.  Thanks for posting!

[Willihammer]

These defenses of the 2-8 scale always seem very circular in their reasoning to me.

 

"The 2-8 scale is an objective rubric of a subjective process because it loosely corresponds to skills that are exactly measurable."