The days of building a roster based on a gut feeling and a stopwatch are over....

https://www.bookmark-help.win/remember-when-we-used-to-trust-a-scout-s-gut-feeling-over-everything-else

The days of building a roster based on a gut feeling and a stopwatch are over. I’ve covered locker rooms for over a decade, and the shift is stark. We went from basic box scores to Statcast tracking exit velocity and spin rate on every single pitch