An unnamed scout, on Delmon Young:
I’ll tell you what. This kid’s hitting instincts are nowhere near what we all thought he’d be. He’s so undisciplined, it’s unbelievable. He’s still got speed. He’s still got a good arm. He still has skills. He’s just not a real good hitter.
Presumably that isn’t the same scout who “gushed that Young’s potential is so great that he compared him to Frank Robinson” shortly after Minnesota acquired him from Tampa Bay two offseasons ago.
Based on the above quote and Patrick Reusse’s recent column in the Minneapolis Star Tribune it looks like people are finally starting to think beyond their five-year-old copies of Baseball America when evaluating Young’s potential.
And all it took was 1,591 plate appearances of undisciplined, powerless, .288/.322/.401 hitting to get the point across.