Chicago Cubs’ Theo Epstein to focus on scouting staff – MLB News
The new change in the Collective Bargaining Agreement for the First Year Player Draft has a lot to offer many teams in the Major League. However, it is the Chicago Cubs that want to utilise it more. The Cubs’ president of baseball operations Theo Epstein
is the very person whom the club thinks has instilled some competitiveness in the team.
Theo Epstein has known ways to make it possible. A professional who invariably emphasizes the need of being creative and thinking outside the box, Epstein understands what scouting staffs are capable of doing. It is this reason that he has inducted some
of the big names here.
The scouting staff, as reported, is tasked with finding and grooming the bright prospects for a club in the long run. The scouts basically keep regular coverage of the young players and look at every team in the Minor League to find talented player.
All this can only be done, as Epstein puts, is through injecting more money into the process and by hiring experienced scouts. Like said earlier, it is all about finding the strength and weakness of the players that are later installed into the team.
"We need to hire the best scouts [and] pay them well," Epstein said. "We can challenge our scouts to get to know the players inside and out, what they eat for breakfast, what they're like in school, what they're like after they win [or] lose.”
“How good a teammate are they? What kind of family support structure do they have? How have they dealt with adversity in the past? We have to answer all of those questions better than the other 29 teams,” said Theo Epstein.
Chicago Cubs have a preponderant reliance on the young players now thanks to the new and experienced frontline office which is actively working to rebuild the team. The club has not won any major tournament for decades now. The Chicago Cubs hope that this
is the year that they rise to glory with the new leadership and players in the side. It will be interesting to see what improvements Epstein makes to the Cubs’ scouting staff in the coming days.
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