Scouting The Sally

I'm writing this to give a little link love to a great site I found this past July. Some of you are probably already aware of it.

scoutingthesally.com is the link and it's run by a guy named Mike Newman.

I stumbled across the site this past July and have been thoroughly impressed by how in depth and detailed it is. The site focuses on "Sally" league players and gives scouting reports, video, and in game analyse of what he saw. The scouting reports go beyond the basic generic 1's I often see. He includes things like mound presence and body types. What I especially like is for pitchers he goes into detail about pitches not just a generic good breakingball he'll tell you where the pitch was being located how well he controled/speed as well as giving accurate velocity reports. For me it's refreshing because it seems I read scouting reports so often that exaggerate a players velocity.  

Lot's of video so you can get a feel for a player. You'll find write ups comparing/contrasting players such as Manny Banuelos v. Casey Kelly. A ton of in game scouting reports. He did a nice piece on how he saw BA's league top 20 for the "Sally". And this is all done on what he actually saw at the games he attended. For me I give much more weight to what someone saw in person especially Mike really seems to know what he's looking at and what to look for. Check out the site. I'm looking forward to following next years crop of players.

Keep up the great work Mike!