Review: Scout: 2008 Baseball Prospects Guide

February 27, 2008

Baseball America started the trend years ago, concentrating it editorial content on the minor leagues and college players. This publication began last year and includes reports on the top 300 in the systems (That seems like a lot, but when you figure it’s the top ten per team, it’s not so amazing. Still I’d hate to bee No. 300 in the overall rankings.)

The team reports are written by beat writers for either an individual team’s house publication, such as the Mets’ Inside Pitch, so one would hope these folks know what they’re doing. Each club has a top stud in its system as well as a “sleeper.” It would be interesting to come back in five years and see how these predictions pan out.

Since Scout is strictly about “what might be,” I would imagine its audience would be much smaller than those who purchase the standard annuals or fantasy-based magazines.

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1 Chris February 27, 2008 at 3:42 pm

I picked this magazine off the shelf the other day, and I love it. You got it right in terms of not being a fantasy guide, but more of a what-if/what’s coming. The only thing that bugs me about the magazine is the insane amount of typos throughout the articles.

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