Whicker: Dodgers’ scout finds fulfillment in a rescue operation
The Dodgers listen to Marty Lamb.
He scouted Walker Buehler as a high school righthander in Lexington, Ky., monitored him at Vanderbilt, recommended him. He told the Dodgers that Will Smith was jumping up the draft boards for a reason, and the Dodgers signed the catcher from the U. of Louisville, too. They drafted Matt Beaty, Luke Raley and Landon Knack, from Lamb’s reports.
All the scouts were sidelined this spring when the virus came, but Lamb had enough stuff on Louisville pitcher Bobby
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