- "Talent scout" redirects here. For talent scouting in the music industry see A&R
Professional sports scouts are trained talent evaluators who travel extensively for the purposes of watching athletes play their chosen sports and determining whether their set of skills and talents represent what is needed by the scout's organization. Artists and Repertoire ( A&R) is the division of a Record label that is responsible for talent scouting and artist development Professional sports, as opposed to amateur Sports are those in which athletes receive payment for their performance Some scouts are primarily interested in the selection of prospects, younger players who may require further development by the acquiring team but who are judged to be worthy of that effort and expense for the potential future payoff that it could bring, while others concentrate on players who are already polished professionals whose rights may be available soon, either through free agency or trading, and who are seen as filling a team's specific need at a certain position. In Professional sports a free agent is a team player whose contract with a team has expired and the player is able to sign a contract with another team if that player Advance scouts watch the teams that their teams are going to play in order to help determine strategy. A Strategy is a long term plan of action designed to achieve a particular goal, most often "winning
Many scouts are former coaches or retired players, while others have made a career just of being scouts. Coach (baseball|Coach (basketball|Coach (ice hockeyIn Sports a coach or manager is an individual involved in the direction instruction and training of the operations Skilled scouts who help to determine which players will fit in well with an organization can be the major difference between success and failure for the team with regard to wins and losses, which often relates directly to the organization's financial success or lack thereof as well.
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Kinds of scouts
According to Tony Lucadello, considered by some to be the greatest scout ever[1][2][3][4], the four kinds of scouts start with the letter 'P':
- Poor -- wastes time looking for games rather than having a planned itinerary
- Picker -- emphasizes a player's one weakness to the neglect of all strengths
- Performance -- bases his evaluation on what a player does in his presence
- Projector -- envisions what a player will be able to do in two or three years. Tony Lucadello ( July 30, 1912 - May 8, 1989) was a professional Baseball scout for the Chicago Cubs (1943
Lucadello estimated that five percent of scouts were poor, five percent pickers, 85 percent performance scouts and five percent projectors. [5]
Computer-Aided Scouting
Modern day scouts are becoming more and more reliant on computer programs to aide and assist in the evaluation of talent being scouted. Every professional sports franchise is now using computers to organize their collected information and data. As of 2007, most franchises still depend on human management to decide which players their organization will draft or sign. In every major sport however, there are some new pioneering programmers that very well may change the landscape of how scouting is done at the professional level.
Notable scouts
Baseball
- Cliff Alexander
- Tom Greenwade
- Howie Haak
- Gary Hughes
- Tony Lucadello
- Joe Sugden
Football (soccer)
External links
- Joyce, Gare. Baseball is a Bat-and-ball Sport played between two teams of nine players each Gary Hughes (born 5 July 1967, Manchester) is an English Hard rock Singer, Songwriter and Musician Tony Lucadello ( July 30, 1912 - May 8, 1989) was a professional Baseball scout for the Chicago Cubs (1943 Joseph "Joe" Sugden was a Fictional character in the popular Soap opera Emmerdale, played by Frazer Hines. Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a Team sport played between two teams of eleven players and is widely considered Piet de Visser (born in Oost- en West-Souburg, Zeeland) is a Dutch football manager and scout Gilles Grimandi (born November 11 1970 in Gap, France) is a former French footballer. Leonardo Nascimento de Araújo, known simply as Leonardo (born September 5, 1969 in Niterói Cesare Maldini (born February 5, 1932) is an Italian football coach and former player Michel Pavón (born November 7, 1968 in La Ciotat, Bouches-du-Rhône, France) is a former French football Paolo Cesare Maldini ( born 26 June 1968 in Milan) is a legendary Italian footballer who has played his entire career for "Wall of Dreams."
Notes
- ^ Robbins, Mike (2004). Ninety Feet from Fame: Close Calls With Baseball Immortality. Pp. 99-100.
- ^ Jordan, David M. (2004). Occasional Glory: The History of the Philadelphia Phillies. Pp. 163-164.
- ^ Spivak, Jeffrey (2005). Crowning the Kansas City Royals: Remembering the 1985 World Series Champs. P. 36.
- ^ Joyce, Gare. Wall of Dreams.
- ^ Winegardner, Mark (1990). Prophet of the Sandlots: Journeys with a Major League Scout. P. 97.
References
- Jordan, David M. Occasional Glory: The History of the Philadelphia Phillies. McFarland & Company, 2003. ISBN 0786412607
- Robbins, Mike, Ninety Feet from Fame: Close Calls With Baseball Immortality. Carroll & Graf Publishers, 2004. ISBN 0786713356
- Spivak, Jeffrey. Crowning the Kansas City Royals: Remembering the 1985 World Series Champs. Sports Publishing LLC, 2005. ISBN 1582618267
- Winegardner, Mark. Prophet of the Sandlots: Journeys with a Major League Scout. Prentice Hall Press, 1990. ISBN 0-13-726373-2
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