This study examines how Major League Baseball (MLB) teams have been selecting players in their First-Year Player Draft. The MLB draft is unique because there is a selection issue with two distinct groups of players (high ...

"When scouts refer to themselves as 'baseball men,' they might as well be naming a distinct class of primates. Just before Jocko Collins retired in 1982, in his forty-third year as a scout, he defined a baseball man as 'a ...

With the high level of volatility and financial investment involved in the Major League Baseball First Year Player Draft, teams are faced with difficult choices when determining which players will project as MLB contributors ...