Recapping The Butch Baccala Conversation
Welcome to The Baseball Awakening Podcast where we dive into the raw, unfiltered, unsexy side of player development.
Summary:
On this episode, Host, Geoff Rottmayer, recaps his conversation with Butch Baccala, National Scouting Director of Prospect Wire and former National Cross Checker for the Cincinnati Reds and Seattle Mariners. The biggest takeaways that he discussed in this show are:
- Coming from 25 years of experience and Butch talking about not being a know it all.
- Lessons learned while first getting into the scouting world.
- Hard work is the answer to success.
- How you want to build a database of guys you can then later compare guys too.
- Be your own guys who do his own research and homework.
- The saying behind everyone id good.
- Strength over Size.
- What he looks in players and pitchers.
- Scouting confidence and how it's not taught.
- How you respond to things matter.
- Swinging at strike and hitting it.
- and much more.
