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Williams: Scouting Talent, Scouting People

ALTOONA, Pa. – The game of baseball is a series of one-on-one battles.

Every single pitch is a battle within itself.

Every pitch contains the potential of the batter scoring a run or the pitcher recording an out.

Most pitches only push the at-bat marginally to an outcome.

It’s a slow moving process that makes baseball a very tedious game to follow for the casual fan and the uninitiated.

For the hardcore baseball fan, each individual pitch, each individual battle — that is the game.

That game is always controlled by the pitcher.