Diamond Scout

Diamond IQ Pick any team on your file and get the whole read at once — what they do well, where you can get at them, and who to have a plan for. First-pitch tendencies, two-out damage, where in the order the damage actually sits, whether their starter fades the second time through, when in the game they score, who runs and who gets caught, and whether they will bunt on you. Every finding says how many trips it rests on, and it stays quiet until there is enough on file to be worth saying. Pocket cards for the fielders Nine printed cards, one per position, each carrying the whole opposing order with that fielder's own instruction beside every hitter — so the boy in right field gets nine lines that are all his, instead of a screen of calls for eight other people. Six to a landscape sheet with faint lines along every cut, each folding once into a back pocket. A full set is the nine fielders plus three dugout cards, so it prints as two pages. The pitcher's card carries how to work each hitter rather than where to stand; the catcher's carries who runs and who bunts. Scoring position, read properly When the feed named a runner who was put out, the trips behind him used to go unread all the way to the third out. Now a named retirement clears him off his base and the half keeps being read — including the two places the feed hides it, on the pitch line where a caught stealing or pickoff is written, and in a plain statement of where a runner remains. Across a 198-game file this cut unreadable scoring-position trips by more than two thirds. What still goes unread is genuinely silent, and is left alone rather than guessed at. A demo season is built in Every screen now has real baseball in it before you import anything, so Diamond IQ and the fielding cards have something to show on day one. Every club and player in it is renamed, each game is badged SAMPLE, and it clears in one tap from Settings.