Difficult to believe scouts when it comes to Strasburg

By now you should realize that baseball scouts are a lot like your local weather man, only not as well-dressed and more likely to eat fast food for dinner five nights a week. They typically offer inaccurate predictions based on inadequate information, which undoubtedly costs Major League franchises hundreds of thousands of dollars (sometimes millions) each season.

The scouts can’t get enough of Strasburg, and so general managers swoon over him, which makes owners love him, which then gets the media aboard the bandwagon and ultimately, results in fans believing he’s the next 300-game winner. It’s a vicious cycle that usually begins with a high radar gun reading and a load of strikeouts against an obscure group of players and ends with some type of unprecedented contract.

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