Scouting Survey Insights & Celebrating Roki Sasaki’s International Signing Spectacle!

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Ben Badler and Carlos Collazo ignite Future Projection for the inaugural edition in 2025 to discuss our newly published scouting survey, Carlos’ 2020 redraft, and Ben’s preparations for the international signing day. 

Initially, they delve into certain findings from our offseason scouting survey, aimed at capturing the current sentiment within the scouting sector during what many scouts characterize as a harsh offseason for the field.

Subsequently, the dialogue transitions to the 2020 redraft that Carlos authored during the holidays. They discuss the complexities of the covid draft and consider the insights that could be derived from it. The episode concludes with Ben’s evaluation of the forthcoming 2025 international signing period set to commence on Jan. 15. He shares the latest updates regarding Roki Sasaki and investigates several potential scenarios that might unfold after his signing with other teams.

Time Stamps

• (2:30) Scouting survey
• (10:00) The significance of multiple perspectives and historical context
• (15:00) The importance of making impactful selections
• (20:00) Defying the traditional veteran scout image
• (27:00) The significance of effective communication
• (33:00) Difficulties in measuring data and assigning weight
• (47:00) 2020 Redraft
• (57:00) Players’ rapid transformation
• (1:05:00) Roki Sasaki’s situation
• (1:16:20) Ben’s predictions for Roki’s signing

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