Scouting and Scoring: How We Know What We Know about Baseball

by Christopher Phillips and Christopher Phillips

Book Overview

An in-depth look at the intersection of judgment and statistics in baseball

Scouting and scoring are considered fundamentally different ways of ascertaining value in baseball. Scouting seems to rely on experience and intuition, scoring on performance metrics and statistics. In Scouting and Scoring, Christopher Phillips rejects these simplistic divisions. He shows how both scouts and scorers rely on numbers, bureaucracy, trust,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691180210
• ISBN13: 9780691180212
• Release Date: March 2019
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.6" x 8.6"