Once upon a time, the players actually picked the starting All-Star lineups and position playing rosters. It happened after then-Commissioner Ford Frick stripped the fans of the voting when a ballot-box stuffing campaign put the entire Cincinnati Reds starting lineup except for Stan Musial onto the 1957 game. Funny things happened when the players got the All-Star votes. The All-Star Games were actually good games.
Interesting scout comment about Chase Utley.
Come to think of it, I had to laugh at that scout's comment on Phillies fans "letting you know when you're not good." I still remember how long it took those clowns to appreciate how great---never mind good---Mike Schmidt really was. It only took until just about the end of his career. And even then, you'd catch enough of them bitching about (get this) how often he walked on "hittable" pitches. If they were so hittable why was he walking that much? (They used to bitch about him striking out a little much but would they rather he hit into double plays? Into which, by the way, Schmidt hit into
less per 162 games than a small boatload of Hall of Famers including his near-peer George Brett.)
But then these are the fans about whom Bo Belinsky said, memorably, "Those people would boo at a funeral."