
Future Value
The Battle for Baseball's Soul and How Teams Will Find the Next Superstar
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Perry Daniels
An unprecedented look inside the world of baseball scouting and evaluation from FanGraphs' lead prospect analysts.
For the modern major-league team, player evaluation is a complex, multipronged, high-tech pursuit. But far from becoming obsolete in this environment - as Michael Lewis' Moneyball once forecast - the role of the scout in today's game has evolved and even expanded. Rather than being the antithesis of a data-driven approach, scouting now represents an essential analytical component in a team's arsenal.
Future Value is a thorough dive into the world of the contemporary scout - a world with its own language, methods, metrics, and madness. From rural high schools to elite amateur showcases, from the back fields of spring training to major-league draft rooms, FanGraphs' Eric Longenhagen and Kiley McDaniel break down the key systems and techniques used to assess talent. It's a process that has moved beyond the quintessential stopwatches and radar guns to include statistical models, countless measurable indicators, and a broader international reach.
Practical and probing, discussing wide-ranging topics from tool grades to front-office politics, this is an illuminating exploration of how to watch baseball and see the future.
©2020 Eric Longenhagen and Kailey McDaniel (P)2020 TantorListeners also enjoyed...




















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The only negatives I have are the tables , while thorough, can drone on for a bit and affect the cadence of the book; and the narrator, bless his heart, mispronounced a few baseball terms and names that were hard to ignore, like pronouncing Velo as "Vell-o" rather than "Vee-lo"
Deep Dive for such an all encompassing book
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The narrator had a great voice, but mispronounced a ton of names. This is forgivable as baseball had become such a diverse sport, featuring athletes from all over the world, with names that can be pretty uncommon in the US. Still, I found it distracting and a bit irksome.
The only other complaint is that this book contains many charts and lists. While these are probably fascinating to look at visual, they can drone on and on in this format, and I found myself getting distracted or lost in some of them.
All in all, I enjoyed the book and have already recommended it to many baseball nerds.
Probably a better physical book.
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great book, narration is shaky
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My three qualms:
1. This book sorely needs an accompanying PDF. There's times where the narrator is just endlessly reading off table after table of values, which is near impossible to parse in real-time and desperately needs to be looked at in visual form.
2. This text is very much a product of its time. If you read it right now, in 2020, it will provide a ton of knowledge. I worry about its longevity though - some due to the industry changing so rapidly, but some due to specific player/team references that may not hold 5 years down the line.
3. The narrator does a good job at pronouncing some names, but a bad job at pronouncing others. It seemed as though he did research on how to pronounce names of foreign-born players, but then didn't think to look up how to pronounce Scooter Gennett's name. At no point did this impair understanding content, just a minor annoyance that creeps up here and there.
Fantastic material needing an accompanying PDF
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Informative. Better if read. Delivery & Performance was dry & robotic
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Thorough and enlightening
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revealing analysis
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wonderful insight!
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incredible, best book I read all quaritine!
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Super informative
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