Sox take scout's word

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This, ladies and gentlemen, is about pure scouting. It's not about numbers or spreadsheets or anything you can download from a computer. This is old-fashioned scouting. The type that projects a player into a role he's not used to. Starter to closer? It worked for Tom Gordon and Dennis Eckersley, but it's failed for many others.

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