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Zack Scott

👤 Speaker
408 total appearances

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Baseball Isn’t Boring
The Realities Of No-Trade Clauses, Opt-Outs And Free Agency, With Zack Scott

You.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
The Realities Of No-Trade Clauses, Opt-Outs And Free Agency, With Zack Scott

Yeah, I want to help executives and coaches with their careers and also in the consulting side, help senior leaders get as much clarity about their organization and be able to feel confident that they really have a handle on what's going on in their organization and that they can, that'll help them decide, make decisions more confidently.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
The Realities Of No-Trade Clauses, Opt-Outs And Free Agency, With Zack Scott

Yeah, I think, you know, I grew up in the game working for Theo Epstein, who had a sign on his door saying, you know, we don't know.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
The Realities Of No-Trade Clauses, Opt-Outs And Free Agency, With Zack Scott

crap, I guess.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
The Realities Of No-Trade Clauses, Opt-Outs And Free Agency, With Zack Scott

A little bit, right?

Baseball Isn’t Boring
The Realities Of No-Trade Clauses, Opt-Outs And Free Agency, With Zack Scott

But so, that was the mentality is like, we always need to be getting better.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
The Realities Of No-Trade Clauses, Opt-Outs And Free Agency, With Zack Scott

If we're not getting better, we're getting worse because other people around us are going to be trying to get better.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
The Realities Of No-Trade Clauses, Opt-Outs And Free Agency, With Zack Scott

And so, you know, try to understand that we know less than we don't know.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
The Realities Of No-Trade Clauses, Opt-Outs And Free Agency, With Zack Scott

And always be, if you always have that mindset, you know, it could be unhealthy that you're paranoid, worried what you're missing, but

Baseball Isn’t Boring
The Realities Of No-Trade Clauses, Opt-Outs And Free Agency, With Zack Scott

I think that's better than thinking you got it all figured out.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
The Realities Of No-Trade Clauses, Opt-Outs And Free Agency, With Zack Scott

And there are a lot of people I've been, you know, surprised my conversations with seniors, there are people that feel really confident that they, you know, got a handle on a lot of things.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
The Realities Of No-Trade Clauses, Opt-Outs And Free Agency, With Zack Scott

I think that part of that comes with, you know, this exponential increase in the amount of information people have and,

Baseball Isn’t Boring
The Realities Of No-Trade Clauses, Opt-Outs And Free Agency, With Zack Scott

they feel more convicted and all these things, but this game's really too hard and the decisions they're making are definitely not formulaic.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
The Realities Of No-Trade Clauses, Opt-Outs And Free Agency, With Zack Scott

So it is really difficult.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
The Realities Of No-Trade Clauses, Opt-Outs And Free Agency, With Zack Scott

You're dealing with people, not a deck of cards is what I always say.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
The Realities Of No-Trade Clauses, Opt-Outs And Free Agency, With Zack Scott

So yeah, no, it's challenging.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
The Realities Of No-Trade Clauses, Opt-Outs And Free Agency, With Zack Scott

And I think that is the right mindset.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
The Realities Of No-Trade Clauses, Opt-Outs And Free Agency, With Zack Scott

even way back then 2003 2003 right i mean yeah right 2003 2005 the mindset and i think in some ways you could say well it's easy to be that way everyone's in their 20s right so like you should realize that you you know there's a lot of fresh faces at the time and you know theo been in the game for 10 years but still only 28 right so but to have that mindset and go into it that

Baseball Isn’t Boring
The Realities Of No-Trade Clauses, Opt-Outs And Free Agency, With Zack Scott

And then maintain that through success was really important.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
The Realities Of No-Trade Clauses, Opt-Outs And Free Agency, With Zack Scott

And obviously you get humbled quickly when you make mistakes in this game with contracts that you give to free agents and they don't work out.