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user-inactivated  ·  4053 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Kevin Kerrane, “Dollar Sign on the Muscle: The World of Baseball Scouting”

    It is now widely available in rerelease from Baseball Prospectus, the leading voice in progressive, contemporary baseball research.

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That's amazing news. The problem with that book is it's too old to deal with the dichotomy in baseball scouting right now that Moneyball touches on just a little bit. Scouting has changed a ton since 1984, and will change a lot more in the next 15 years.