Scouting and Scoring: How We Know What We Know about Baseball

In Scouting and Scoring, Christopher Phillips rejects the simplistic divisions between scouting and scoring, showing how both scouts and scorers rely on numbers, bureaucracy, trust, and human labor to make sound judgments about the value of baseball players. The book provides a unique consideration of the role of quantitative measurement and human judgment, revealing what baseball can tell us about reliable knowledge in the modern world.