Cheap Arte's Eight Scouts

[WicketMaiden]

The Angels’ scouting department has 50 staff. Yes you did read that correctly, fifty. Five - oh. If your maths isn’t great, trust me, that is a lot more than the eight that is most often quoted.

Those fifty people, dedicated to finding the very best future talents for the Angels, are working across three departments covering Amateur Scouting, International Scouting and Professional Scouting; including five scouts in both Venezuela and Dominican Republic, plus others in Mexico, Curaçao, Panama and another half dozen in the US on the pro-scouting side alone.

Then there are the Crosscheckers and the Area Supervisors, the Co-ordinators, Directors and Special Assistants, plus myriad front office staff supporting them behind the scenes with travel, admin, IT, video tech, etc, etc. I can only guesstimate the cost of running a department of fifty scouting professionals with admin support and travel across six countries and ‘cheap’ isn’t a word I’d use to describe it. 

How good they are, I don’t know, plenty of others here have much greater knowledge about that than I. How they compare to other teams, I don't have the time or motivation to do the research to answer that, so I really can’t give an opinion worth a salt there either. What I can say is: the Angels have a scouting department that is a multi-million dollar annual investment in the future of the team that includes dozens of scouts in several countries and to me, that seems like a pretty good state of affairs. Go Halos!

[Taylor]

Dangit, this ruins my narrative!

[T.G.]

I'm going to need names and social security numbers, please.

[Angelsfan1984]

Thats not 8. I was told there were 8. I'm going to go with 8 until i hear otherwise. 

 

 

 

8

[Blarg]

1 minute ago, Taylor said:

Dangit, this ruins my narrative!

You could always question their LGBTQ hiring policies. 

[TroutField]

2 minutes ago, Angelsfan1984 said:

Thats not 8. I was told there were 8. I'm going to go with 8 until i hear otherwise. 

 

 

 

8

The 8 scouts have 42 interns working for them for Taco Bell runs. 

[Angelsfan1984]

1 minute ago, TroutField said:

The 8 scouts have 42 interns working for them for Taco Bell runs. 

That math checks out. I believe it. 

[Jeremiah]

“Taco Bell” and “Runs” definitely checks out.

[Inside Pitch]

1 hour ago, WicketMaiden said:

The Angels’ scouting department has 50 staff. Yes you did read that correctly, fifty. Five - oh. If your maths isn’t great, trust me, that is a lot more than the eight that is most often quoted.

Those fifty people, dedicated to finding the very best future talents for the Angels, are working across three departments covering Amateur Scouting, International Scouting and Professional Scouting; including five scouts in both Venezuela and Dominican Republic, plus others in Mexico, Curaçao, Panama and another half dozen in the US on the pro-scouting side alone.

Then there are the Crosscheckers and the Area Supervisors, the Co-ordinators, Directors and Special Assistants, plus myriad front office staff supporting them behind the scenes with travel, admin, IT, video tech, etc, etc. I can only guesstimate the cost of running a department of fifty scouting professionals with admin support and travel across six countries and ‘cheap’ isn’t a word I’d use to describe it. 

How good they are, I don’t know, plenty of others here have much greater knowledge about that than I. How they compare to other teams, I don't have the time or motivation to do the research to answer that, so I really can’t give an opinion worth a salt there either. What I can say is: the Angels have a scouting department that is a multi-million dollar annual investment in the future of the team that includes dozens of scouts in several countries and to me, that seems like a pretty good state of affairs. Go Halos!

They always had at least twice as many Latin American scouts as they did US scouts, but 8 really was low point domestically and not a made up narrative driven number.  

Only reason it took them as long as it did to get the overall numbers back up was the timing of Minasian's hiring.  Scout contracts commonly run out before the MLB season does and the free for all to hire guys happens really quickly after a season ends.  Media guys ran with the low hanging fruit while piling on but it was a real figure.

Also why you can never put the initial draft under a new hire GM on the new guy, more often than not it's all the previous regimes guys who were still under contract.

[Blarg]

24 minutes ago, Inside Pitch said:

Also why you can never put the initial draft under a new hire GM on the new guy, more often than not it's all the previous regimes guys who were still under contract.

When every player picked is a pitcher, it's the new guy. 

[Inside Pitch]

13 minutes ago, Blarg said:

When every player picked is a pitcher, it's the new guy. 

thats what happens when you rely entirely on the analytics after the top 50 guys.