Same body type as Brad Rigby.

COMMENT: LONG LIMBED. RACE HORSE TYPE BODY. THIN ANKLES. LOOSE, LIVE, GRACEFUL ACTIONS. FULLY MATURED. RESEMBLES JON OLERUD. STRAIGHT UP, SLIGHTLY OPEN STANCE W/ NARROW SPREAD. HARD, LINE DRIVE CONTACT TO ALL FIELDS. TOUGH OUT. GAP PWR. BALL JUMPS. GOOD READS ON FLY BALLS. GLIDES TO BALL. PLAYABLE ARM WILL IMPROVE. FLIES 1ST TO 3RD. FEARLESS. CAN CARRY TEAM. HAS THE MAKINGS OF A 5-TOOL PLYR.

That's the scouting report for Princeton's Brandon Szymanski for this year's baseball amateur draft.

Oh, and the comment about Brad Rigby's body type, that's a comment on HS pitcher Michael Schlacht, drafted by the Rangers in the second round. Brad Rigby, by the way, won a whopping total of five MLB games, so how his body type is going to confer baseball immortality on young Michael is anybody's guess. In fact, how anyone's body type can be used to forecast success in the major leagues is one of the really strange mysteries of baseball.

He's got "a baseball body" or even "a good face" -- both often used by scouts to recommend a high school or college player. Can the kid strike out players from the University of Texas -- a more reliable predictor of big league potential? Who knows.

I suggest that teams dispense with the leather-skinned, snuff-sucking army of baseball lifers paid to watch kids play ball, and replace them with thirteen year-old girls. That way, we'd at least have the certainty of all players resembling Derek Jeter and Alex Rodriguez.

I love most baseball traditions. This one, reminiscent of 19th century slave auctions, really has to go.