scout

They sometimes scout collegiate chess and poker tournaments, looking for people who are uncannily good at playing the odds and anticipating what will happen next.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

Bob Fontaine Jr. was a scout for six MLB teams and drafted Hall of Famers Ozzie Smith, Tony Gwynn and Randy Johnson, in addition to Jim Abbott and many other Angels stars.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026

Yankees scouting director Damon Oppenheimer and scout Matt Hyde discovered both players while Oppenheimer was temporarily living near Boston in 2020.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026

“When we would scout him … it was always like ... ‘I don’t like him,’” Mesidor said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 12, 2026

Leah’s friend Pascal was the only one who still came around occasionally, wanting Leah to come out and scout the bush for adventures with him.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver

Both Fontaines were scouts well ahead of the deep empirical and objective analysis of baseball data — sabermetrics is the catch-all term — that some believe has made scouts obsolete.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 5, 2026

An in-house real-estate team aggressively scouts and negotiates deals for prime locations.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026

They interviewed local people, including wildlife scouts and community elders.

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026

But Randolph disputes the idea African scouting is now saturated, citing a number of areas that remain relatively undiscovered, often because of conflict or logistics, with scouts drawn to the region's biggest cities.

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026

There was a Japanese outpost at Cape Torokina nearby, but our scouts thought it had only about a hundred men.

From "Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two" by Joseph Bruchac