Behind The Plate with Kyle Glaser Baseball America

A's mid-Atlantic area scout Tripp Faulk joins the podcast as this week's guest. He discusses growing up around the game as the son of longtime scout Paul Faulk, how coaching taught him the importance of makeup and the scouting and signing of Zack Gelof in the 2021 draft.

Mets scouting director Drew Toussaint joins the podcast to discuss an adventurous life in baseball, including being teammates with Rickie Weeks at Southern, playing in the Japanese minor leagues, signing Dominic Smith and Jeff McNeil as a scout and his meteoric rise to scouting director.

Padres Northwest area scout Justin Baughman joins the podcast to discuss his experiences playing in the major leagues, scouting non-traditional draft prospects and the rise of his most recent big leaguer, Padres reliever Alek Jacob.

Pirates area scout Adam Bourassa joins Behind The Plate to discuss scouting and signing 2021 No. 1 overall pick Henry Davis, as well as revisiting his all-ACC career at Wake Forest, learning under Theo Epstein and coaching Ian Happ at Cincinnati.

Astros Midwest area scout Scott Oberhelman joins the podcast to discuss scouting and signing Astros righthander Hunter Brown in his first year as an area scout, as well as his own career as a Division III pitcher and how he got started as a scout in the Cape Cod League.

Former Reds Dominican Scouting Coordinator Richard Jimenez joins to podcast to discuss how he signed Elly De La Cruz. What he saw in De La Cruz as an amateur, why he signed him off of just a one-day look and how his previous scouting experiences led him to believe in De La Cruz when few others did.