EWFI Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley speak to FanGraphs’ Eric Longenhagen and ESPN’s Kiley McDaniel about their brand-new volume, Future Value: The Battle for Baseball’s Soul and How Teams Will Find the Next Superstar, touching on topics including the best kinds of scouting legends, how technology and data have confirmed or invalidated traditional scouting creeds, how smart-alecky teams are spending, how to make a miserly proprietor invest in scouting and development, whether scouts should have access to data, whether scouts can accurately analyse makeup, introverted vs. extroverted scouts, whether it’s good or bad for squads to have a ” form ,” how crews will train prospects if there isn’t a minor league season, whether it’s possible to foresee gashes, Eric and Kiley’s scouting concentrations and weaknesses, and much more.

Audio intro: The Weakerthans, “Relative Surplus Value” Audio outro: Erick Dayz, “Scouting Report

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