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Welcome to Doug's Arizona Baseball scouting report website. This site hosts a variety of scouting reports with the need to put some of the archives from the old site onto here. I will work on that this summer. As well as try to create a way to check players reports across the various scouting opportunities.

To get started looking at scouting reports, please choose a team or player from the menu on the left.

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Most baseball fans are very familiar with the way Spring Training works. Early games usually have only cameos of established MLB players. But as the regular season gets closer, the major league camp gets narrowed down to those who will make up the team in the current year with younger players being sent to minor league camps. With the season starting earlier in 2024, this process begins even earlier than before. And due to being pulled elsewhere early in Spring Training 2024, my reports this year are less quantative and qualitative than usual.

There is a new wrinkle this year. It is called the Spring Breakout. Every team will put together a squad of their top young prospects and play one game against the top prospects of a different franchise. There will be 8 such games in Arizona and 8 in Florida and they will occur between March 14 and March 17 usually as part of a doubleheader with a regular Spring Training game.

Since most major league fans understand their players on the MLB rosters, this is a chance for me to give some insights into the upcoming generation of players for each team training in Arizona. So I will hit as many of these games as I can and give you full scouting reports. Just like an AFL game.

Now lets talk the Arizona Fall League or AFL. The 2023 Arizona Fall League has seen some tweaks to the format of the league in the past. The 6 teams (Surprise, Peoria, Glendale, Salt River, Mesa and Scottsdale) are the same and all are grounded by the 1 or 2 teams that spring train in Arizona at those sites - Texas, Kansas City in Surprise, Seattle, San Diego in Peoria, White Sox, Dodgers in Glendale, Rockies, Diamonbacks in Salt River, Cubs in Mesa, Giants in Scottsdale.

That makes 10 teams assigned by default with the other 20 MLB teams assigned apparently at random (/) to the those 6 Arizona Fall League teams. Each of the 6 AFL (Arizona Fall League) teams host prospects from 5 MLB teams each. Each MLB team sends 5 to 8 prosepct players to Arizona in October (a larger number than usual assigned this year). Who is chosen is decided by each team based on who might need the work (say injured during the summer) and who needs the challenge.And who is needed to make a complete AFL team as well.

This has been the way the Fall League has operated for decades now and it provides a lot of consistency for AFL fans as well as a great way to watch prospects before they become superstars. Over several decades of operations, the AFL has seen some impressive numbers both of future superstars who played here as well and the large percentage of the players from here actually make the Show. Many of today's stars from a broad range of players from Chris Bassitt to Mike Trout to ABner Uribe have wowed us in the fall in Arizona before they hit it big in the MLB.

As a result, the scouting level of analysis herein is based on the expectation that some of these guys are stars, some will be MLB players but NOT stars, and some will not make it. Those who dont make it are still some of the best baseball players in the world. My intent is to try to envision the MLB future result and thus those whose skills might be a little short of Mike Trout are noted as below average. It is not my intent to diminish the abilities of anyone but simply to give my readership an appreciation for those future stars by way of differentiation. And I am often wrong on both counts - as any scout will be.