Episode Details

Today Ben and Carlos have an interview with Hudson Belinsky. Belinsky led Baseball America’s draft coverage from 2015-2017 and then joined the Arizona Diamondbacks as a Georgia area scout, where he worked for the team for five years. He is the signing scout for 2022 first-round outfielder Druw Jones, 2021 ninth-round lefthander Jake Rice, 2019 13th-round second baseman Cam Coursey, 2019 third-round first baseman Tristin English and 2018 NDFA lefthander Trevor McKenna. He’s currently an agent with Kares Sports Management.

The three talk about his background with Baseball America and his experiences as a scout with the D-backs. The conversation goes in plenty of directions, in classic Future Projection fashion, and the trio touch on topics including:

• The process of transitioning from writer to scout
• The different tools at your disposal on the team side
• The value of data and analytics
• What it was like to scout and sign Druw Jones in 2022
• How he handled disagreements in evaluations on players with other scouts
• Lessons he learned about player evaluation over the years
• Some of the pitfalls of the current youth baseball scene
• His experience dealing with agents and now becoming one
• And more

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