Scouting is important. You just want to know whom you are playing against and how to play them well within the team's defense.
We just kind of relied on written scouting reports through the eighties and even the early nineties. I've really been amazed by some of the data that's out there, especially with regards to tendencies of hitters, and certainly tendencies of pitchers as well. I would have loved to have gotten that data when I played.
We draft mostly high school kids and we have one of the finest, if not the finest, player development programs and coaching staffs and we teach our players the right way to play. We also have a game plan in scouting, and there are certain types of players that we look for.
Discrimination at any level sends a harmful message to youth, gay or straight alike, and that discrimination has no place in Scouting.
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