Scouting question for UK

[imb]

(You'll always be UK to me)

 

When a team scouts a high school player, how do they scout his plate discipline?

 

I see a lot of high school baseball, but just about everyone ends up with a high ISOD, and I imagine that based on the talent of the majority of the pitchers these kids face on a day to day basis, the stats get thrown out anyway.

[UK1679666180]

I couldn't name the stats of any HS kid in the area, facing pitchers throwing 77 doesn't tell me how good of a hitter he'll become.

 

You just have to see a kid enough to get a feel on how well his strike zone knowledge is, but by then you'll know how good his tools are and that would factor much more anyways. I'd follow a kid with better tools and a worse eye than vice versa and hope he can improve as he gets older with better instruction.

 

I assume with HS kids that it ain't high on the priority list and could be assumed to be taught espec. if that organization stresses vision/hand eye coord.

 

Stats in So. Cal and Florida might be more valid, but unless they stand out for being bad, they won't factor much like with Vitters last year.