ProspectLens
A mobile scouting notebook that turns any minor-league box score into a structured scouting report with grades on hit tool, power, plate discipline, and a comparison to similar MLB prospects at the same age.
Baseball scouts, college coaches, and serious amateur draft-followers
- One-tap box-score-to-report that highlights exit velocity, chase rate, and K/BB trends
- Auto-generated 20-80 grades with a confidence score and a comparable-prospect list
- Watchlist that pings you when a tracked player has a statistically unusual game
- Side-by-side spray-chart comparison against current MLB starters
A two-homer breakout by a young Reds hitter is the precise moment scouts and draft-followers want to log and contextualize a performance.
Established audience exists — Baseball America, FanGraphs, RotoProspects, Baseball Prospectus all serve serious prospect-followers with paid products using the same hit/power/speed grading vocabulary the idea proposes.Subscriptions | Baseball Prospectus ↗
Direct search for an AI tool that auto-generates scouting reports from a box score returned no hits — that specific UX is open — but incumbents (Prospect Savant, MLB Pipeline, FanGraphs The Board) already publish standardized grades manually, so the white space is narrow rather than wide.Prospect Savant ↗FanGraphs The Board ↗
Willingness to pay is proven at $4.99/mo (RotoProspects) and higher tiers at Baseball Prospectus/Baseball America, but the target mix — pro scouts use employer tools, college coaches have program budgets, and only serious amateur followers pay out-of-pocket — keeps the addressable paying base modest.Updated Top Prospect Rankings - RotoProspects ↗Subscriptions | Baseball Prospectus ↗
Scouting/draft coverage is a multi-decade market with established subscription incumbents; demand is seasonal (Feb–Jul draft cycle) but the category persists year over year.Subscribe to Baseball America ↗
A genuine 'grade on hit tool, power, plate discipline' requires Statcast-equivalent pitch/contact data, not just box-score lines — building that data pipeline plus the comparable-MLB-prospect lookup is significantly more work than a simple box-score ingestion app.Prospect Savant ↗