Moisés Ballesteros & Kyle Carr

Whether you’re in the business of appraising a property, jewelry, or in our case, baseball talent, the middle ground makes up the crux of any sort of opinion-based evaluation. The outliers are the easier assessments, whereas the middle ones are where we spend the most time researching and dissecting our reports. On the 20-80 scouting scale, Role 20 prospects are abundant. These prospects are organizational depth. Roughly 80% of lower minor teams are made up of Role 20 or Role 30 prospects (Up/Down, Quad-A potential outcome). If I’m working on our reports for the Minor League Baseball Analyst, I’m spending little time on guys I have as Role 3. Heck, I’m not writing up Role 2 guys. I spend the same time on Role 7 (Perennial...

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