The MLB Draft is handled very differently than other drafts, so it's only fitting the terminology is different as well. Baseball's way of evaluating prospects evokes the scientific method. Branch ...

When it comes to evaluating players’ scouting tools grades, an 80 is the holy grail. An 80-grade tool represents the best of the best on the 20-to-80 scouting scale. Some evaluators consider only one ...

Unlike other professional sports, MLB has an industry standard scale used to evaluated players. Whether it's their tools or skills, players are rated based on a scale from 20-80 on myriad categories — ...

As the spring of 2010 unfolded, Tim McDonnell formed an opinion firmly outside the scouting mainstream. McDonnell, the Marlins’ area scout for greater Los Angeles, believed Christian Yelich had the ...