The scout recalls one incident from his first year with the Astros that hammered that home. “I got laughed at, like literally laughed in my face, because I turned in a fifth-year senior catcher who could catch bullpens,” he says. “Maybe if somebody went down, there’s value in a guy who can catch, right? It doesn’t have to be a big leaguer, but there is organizational value. So I turned that guy in… and they just laughed at me. ‘This guy’s got a minus fifty stat score.’”
