Wither Toby Hall? and Nice Things About Logan White

THE BEST PROSPECT IN HIS OWN FARM SYSTEM

"This is a guy who's a GM prospect. He's of the ilk of the Doug Melvins, the Dave Dombrowskis and the Walt Jockettys of the world. He's an exceptional leader, and he'll be the first one to tell you you're only as good as the people around you."
--Roland Hemond, former GM of the Orioles, on Logan White.

"You have to make sure all their voices are heard. We're scouts, which means all we want to do is give our opinions and have someone listen. The hardest thing for me when I became a scouting director was making sure I adapted to my scouts rather than the other way around. Some are high-graders, some are low-graders, some just love everybody they see and some don't like anybody. So you take all those personalities into account and work with their strengths."
--Dodgers AGM for scouting Logan White, on his management style.

"This is a people business, and as such, figuring out what a player's ceiling is between the tools and the makeup is a huge undertaking. And we want our scouts to be challenged here. Assessing the makeup with the criteria we have in place certainly does that."
--White

"Every one of those players is currently on their 40-man. You kind of have to wonder what kind of magic he's using in that wand of his."
--unnamed NL scouting director, on Logan White draftees. (Chris Kline, Baseball America)

SPENDING TIME AWAY FROM YOUR FAMILY: IT'S THE DODGER WAY

"He's the most underrated scouting director in baseball. Nobody really knows the value of this guy. He travels more than anybody. He's a workaholic that spends endless hours away from his family. But luck is a factor of design--he's been able to do what he's done out of nothing but hard, hard work."
--former Dodgers manager Tommy Lasorda

"The difficult issues were more industry-wide than just us. That was the time when you had statistical people versus traditional scouts, Ivy League versus the so-called 'old school' way of thinking."
--White