Tyler Wagner

Cup of coffee with the ⚾️ Brewers, Diamondbacks. Pickleball, ☕️ and bitcoin addict.

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@FoxNews @HawleyMO @grok give me the details on this case. How was she falsely accused? Her car was the same as the one involved? How could a mistake like this happen?

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Excited to get back into the game of baseball! Teaching what got me drafted and got me to the big leagues.

The mental game of baseball!

Almost done with website.
Dm me if interested to hear, going to need high school and college coaches to help promote and earn referral $.

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THE SENTENCE THAT COULD CHANGE A DRAFT ROOM

THE SCOUTING CLASSROOM: Stories Behind the Report #67

“A summary wasn’t just the end of a report. Sometimes it became the beginning of a Major League career.”

Every scouting report contained pages of information, measurements, grades, velocities, mechanics, makeup, medical history, background and every detail mattered.

But when the report landed on a scouting director’s desk, there was one section that often carried the most weight.

•The SUMMARY

If the individual grades were the evidence, the summary was the closing argument.

It answered one question:

What are you asking the organization to believe?

One report that always comes back to me was
Tyler Wagner

Tyler had been a shortstop on my Angels Scout Team before converting to pitching during the fall of his senior year of high school. By his junior season at the University of Utah, he was one of the best closers in the Pac-12, routinely pitching one to four innings whenever the game was on the line.

Most scouts saw a college reliever.

I saw something different.

The raw ingredients were all there: a fastball with life at 91-96 mph, a swing-and-miss slider, a deceptive changeup, athleticism from his years as an infielder, and a delivery that hadn’t been over-coached. His command still needed refinement, but I believed those were teachable adjustments, not physical limitations.

The sentence that mattered most wasn’t his velocity or his grades.

It was this:

“Would send him out as a starter to develop… With three plus pitches, shows the repertoire to fill a No. 2/3 starter’s role with the ability to set up or close as well.”

That wasn’t simply a projection.

It was a recommendation.

It meant asking our scouting director, Bruce Seid, to spend a 4th round pick on a pitcher he had never personally seen or start.

We had one crosscheck look. I had watched Tyler’s entire evolution, from high school shortstop, to college closer, to the pitcher I believed he could become. My report wasn’t describing who Tyler was that day.

It was describing who I believed he would become.

That is the responsibility every area scout carries.

The draft room isn’t looking for certainty. It’s looking for conviction supported by evidence.

Bruce trusted my evaluation, and the Brewers selected Tyler in the 4th round.

The development plan followed the report almost exactly. Milwaukee converted him into a starter, and just three years later he reached the Major Leagues, matching the ETA projection in my report.

The grades helped get him into the room.

The summary helped get his name called.

Lesson:
The grades explain the tools. The summary explains your conviction. Sometimes one well-supported sentence carries more weight than every number written before it.

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The Scouting Classroom #14

THE ANGELS ELITE SCOUT TEAM WAS A CLASSROOM

People hear the words scout team and automatically think baseball games, travel schedules, uniforms, and exposure opportunities.

That was part of it.

But for me, the Angels Scout Team from 2006–2009 became something much bigger.

It became a classroom.

Not a classroom with desks and whiteboards.

A scouting classroom.

An environment where evaluations didn’t happen in one look or one weekend. It became a place where I could repeatedly watch players over time and study something every scout is really trying to find:

Patterns.

Because one of the biggest mistakes people make in player evaluation is believing one game tells the story.

It doesn’t.

One game can fool you.

A player can go 3-for-4 and not be a future big leaguer.

A player can go 0-for-4 and eventually play ten years in the Major Leagues.

One day gives you a snapshot.

Repeated exposure gives you truth.

That is what made the Angels Elite Scout Team so valuable.

Over four years, that roster eventually included:

Kris Bryant - 1st Rd
Kevin Gausman - 1st Rd
Greg Bird - 5th Rd
Tyler Wagner - 4th Rd
Aaron Blair - 1st Rd
Joey Rickard - 9th Rd
Donn Roach - 3rd Rd
Johnny Field - 5th Rd
Taylor Cole - 29th Rd
Paul Sewald - 10th Rd
Andy Burns - 11th Rd

Eleven future Major Leaguers eventually came through the program.

And the interesting part is they looked nothing alike.

Different bodies.
Different tools.
Different personalities.
Different levels of physical maturity.
Different timelines.
Different paths.

That became one of the greatest educational experiences of my scouting career because no two players developed the same way.

Some players looked like future professionals immediately.

Others grew into it.

Some physically matured early.

Others made huge jumps later.

Some overwhelmed you with tools.

Others slowly convinced you through performance, instincts, competitiveness, and feel.

And that’s where repeated looks matter.

The scout team environment gave me something many scouts rarely get:

The opportunity to keep coming back.

To keep watching.
To keep learning.

Over time you start seeing things that one game never reveals.

You begin seeing how players respond after failure.

How they adjust when good competition punches back.

How they handle adversity.

How they interact with teammates.

How they compete on days they don’t feel great.

How their tools actually play against better players.

Because tools on paper and tools in games can become two completely different things.

Velocity is one thing.
Pitchability is another.

Raw power is one thing.
Hitting is another.

Running a 60 yard dash is one thing.
Playing baseball is another.

And the longer you watch players, the more patterns begin to emerge.

Patterns in body language.
Patterns in confidence.
Patterns in makeup.
Patterns in consistency.
Patterns in adjustment.
Patterns in competitiveness.

That is where real scouting begins.

Because scouting isn’t simply collecting tools.

It is collecting evidence.

And evidence takes time.

Looking back now, the Angels Elite Scout Team was one of the greatest classrooms I ever had because I wasn’t just evaluating players.

I was learning.

Learning how players develop.

Learning how projections work.

Learning that there is no one formula.

And learning that if you stay around players long enough, patterns eventually tell you the truth.

One game gives you a snapshot.

A scout team season gives you patterns.

And patterns are where real evaluation begins.

That’s Scouting

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@DanteTheDon Agree. Don’t let your boss see this 😂

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@GrantCardone Proof of work.

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Reminder on Palm Sunday. Through peace and love. Not killing and war. JESUS CHRIST IS KING ✝️

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@PBDsPodcast Trump ran on. No new wars, reduce the national debt, deportations. America first. None of that is happening. No one is saying vote democrat, we are saying vote for republicans that are actually America first.