Overview

• In his July 31 trade report, ESPN’s Jeff Passan cited a scout when calling prospect Edgleen Perez, acquired from the Yankees, a player with “excellent swing decisions.”
• On August 1, former first baseman Doug Mientkiewicz mocked the phrase on X, contrasting Perez’s analytics praise with a .209 average in A ball.
• Passan countered that the terminology came directly from a scout and criticized Mientkiewicz’s emphasis on batting average.
• The back-and-forth extended through multiple posts, as Mientkiewicz urged proper attribution to scouts and Passan delivered sharp rejoinders about evolving metrics.
• As of Friday evening, Passan has not replied to Mientkiewicz’s closing tweet urging credit for scouting sources.