View Full Version : What Are Advanced Scouts?  06-08-2008, 07:32
PM What are advanced scouts?  What are their responsibilities?
Do the Reds have very good advanced scouts?  Who uses the
advanced scouts information?  Who makes the decisions on what to
use from the information from advanced scouts?  Who calles the
pitches for the Reds, are they good at it?  06-08-2008, 08:09 PM
The term is actually "Advance Scouts," and they, very simply,
scout out in advance the teams you will play in the near future
for the purposes of developing a strategy. They are
distinguished from "Talent Scouts" or "Minor League Scouts" who
prepare reports on players to possibly acquire.  06-08-2008,
09:19 PM Are advance scouts kind of fading away? I mean they
were important say 10+ years ago when the video fotage of every
game wasn't available. Now every team will have access to every
opponent's video. They will have access to pretty much an entier
season worth of games. It seems to me that the days of advance
scouts traveling to each