With baseball on hiatus, The Arizona Republic is looking at Diamondbacks players through the eyes of the scouts who signed them. They will tell us what they liked about the player, why they pushed for their club to draft and/or sign him and what, if anything, has surprised them about the way the player has developed.
These amateur scouts are the anonymous infantry of baseball organizations. They spend countless hours traveling from field to field to find the game’s stars of the future. Many of them have good stories to tell. Our series of occasional interviews will give them a chance to share them.