00:00But just to let you know where he was.
00:01This is his fourth major league team.
00:03He got picked up for cash considerations in the offseason.
00:06He made his debut last year.
00:08Yeah, he made his debut with the Tampa Bay Rays,
00:10a team that's known for being very good at deciphering who is and who isn't
00:15as far as going to make it.
00:16Yeah, their scouting is very good.
00:17Exactly.
00:17But you know what?
00:18I don't think they're complaining because they're in first place
00:21doing their thing in the American League.
00:22They're still good without Tristan Peters.
00:24But the fact that he's been given this opportunity
00:26where he didn't know if he was going to make the opening day roster
00:29and now has turned that into a rookie season in which he is an all-star
00:33is bananas.
00:35And that is a pun, very much intended.
00:37B-A-N-A-N-A-S.
00:40That's an ode to Gwen Stefani in the song.
00:43But either way, we talked about this too.
00:47For all of the credit that we've given to White Sox scouting
00:50when it comes to finding guys like Sam Antonacci, for example,
00:54which I do think it takes some scout knowledge
00:57as well as analytical knowledge.
00:59And when we see other organizations devalue scouting
01:03where the layoffs will oftentimes come via scouts
01:07because they cost money.
01:09They are your boots on the ground who are spending hours a day
01:12watching games.
01:13And you can't shorten the game.
01:15You have to watch the game for yourself to see.
01:18It's expensive, but we see why it works.
01:21You see this.
01:22The moneyball portrayal in the movie of scouting is inaccurate
01:27given how they view the game now and how most of your GMs,
01:31a lot of them come up from the scouting side as well as the data side.
01:35You're seeing more data now represented.
01:36There's no doubt.
01:37But the scouting is still valued.
01:39And it takes some of that to be able to find these players like him.
01:44That's how you win cheap, too,
01:46because the scout is still cheaper than some of these contracts.
01:49I look in the direction of the Dodgers.
01:51Mm-hmm.
01:52Mm.
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