A catcher's or first baseman's running time is expected to be below average, or worse. There are catchers in the Major Leagues who run 4. There are power hitters in the outfield who run 4. Speed IS important for shortstops and centerfielders, and to a lesser extent, second baseman and third baseman.
The bottom line is this: If you are not going to be a power hitter or drive in a lot of runs, you had better score runs or take-away hits and runs with your speed and glove.
The times to first base can be deceiving if the hitter has a swing with a long follow-thru, because those hitters are slower to get out of the batter's box. It is essential that a scout watches a player run around the bases - for example running from first to third - in order to get an accurate feel for a player's true speed.
An outfielder can show his true speed by running down balls in the gaps or to the fence. Left and right fielders should run the 60 yard dash under 6. What Scouts Look For In Hitters This is the hardest all tools to predict whether a player will hit major league pitching because you often do not know whether they will hit at the major league level until they get there.
The quality the most necessary to become a major league hitter is a smooth quick level swing. A player with a quick bat can wait on the pitches longer therefore have a better chance of hitting the ball harder.
Another important quality to look for is a good knowledge of the strike zone. A player will not become a good hitter by swinging at pitches outside the strike zone. The more patient the hitter is, the more dangerous they become. When watching a hitter play close attention to his hands when he strides. If a player drops or raises his hands when the pitch is being delivered, he increases his chances of not hitting the ball hard.
The hands should go back, the less unnecessary movement, the better. The harder the pitcher is throwing, the more mechanically correct the hitter needs to be to hit. A hitter that lunges, doesn't keep his hands back, hitches or has a pronounced uppercut will not hit at a consistent level. When evaluating hitters focus on tools, not statistics. You should scout tools not performance. Statistic are good for evaluating weaknesses.
A hitter with a high strikeout and low walk total is swinging at too many bad pitches, unless corrected will never hit at a constant level.
A hitter should be able to turn on a good fastball on the inside part of the plate. If he can't, he has little chance of becoming a good hitter, because pitchers must throw inside to be successful at the major league level.
A hitter must be able to hit breaking pitches or he will not last at the major league or minor league level. Once word gets out about a hitters can1t hit the breaking pitches, he will see nothing else until he learns to hit it.
Often the player with the greatest desire will develop into a better ball player than the one with better physical tools. Most of the players when they sent to the minor leagues, are used to being the star on their team and often have never been in a slump or have lost a game before.
This for many players is difficult to accept. For the first time in their lives, they are knocked out in the first inning or go 0 for 4. If a player can overcome this, they have a better chance of reaching their goal of playing in the major leagues.
One of the most important factors in a player's makeup is whether they can adjust to being away from home.
Most high school players have never been away from home for any length of time and many are not prepared mentally to handle the long bus rides, bad lights, and poor playing conditions. For many college players, the minors is a step down from playing on good fields, good lighting, flying, and large attendance. The college player often comes into the minor leagues more mature because he has been away from home, but a player with a college degree may quit after two years if he does not feel he is being promoted quick enough.
It is very difficult for players to see their teammates being promoted while they are staying put. A player who works hard and puts up good numbers in the minor leagues will be noticed by the organization. PITCHERS: Arm strength, velocity, movement, and a curveball with tight rotation, free arm action and proper delivery, with complete extension on the follow-though basically a live, quick arm, aggressiveness, and the ability to concentrate.
MAKEUP: Strong desire to succeed, coachability, maturity, temperament, improvement, drive, hunger, consistency, knowledge of the game, competitiveness, how badly does the player want to reach the major leagues and how well he will work at. Can he gain or lose weight? Will he become faster or slower? But back to our leaderboard for a second, because you're surely wondering who in the world "Franchy Cordero" is -- he's a San Diego rookie outfielder off to an impressive start -- and he serves as a valuable way to get into something important here: sample size.
You would never look at a hitter who had a single in two at-bats and say he was truly a ". Different metrics require different amounts of time to be useful; the ones that are purely about skill, such as arm strength or spin rate , tend to take less time than outcomes, such as ERA or OPS. We're starting to see that foot speed follows the same path. Just look how high up Cleveland's Zimmer appears, or take, for example, Cardinals rookie Magneuris Sierra , who didn't qualify for our leaderboards since he spent just eight days in the Majors earlier this year.
He arrived with quite the reputation, and in his brief stint in the bigs, he showed why. Speed never slumps. Remember, 27 is average, and only a half-dozen runners have had even one sprint of In just a handful of games, Sierra showed skill that would have put him in the top three if he'd qualified, which he may well do if he returns later this year. Speed matters.
It matters on defense, and on the bases. It peaks early, and it doesn't take long to see if it's real. That same player using the optimal strategy of a constantly curving path can round the bases in By the next World Series, maybe they'll let me in the booth there with them.
Sometimes, math takes thousands of years to catch on. I'm in no hurry.
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