Editor’s note: We were in Springfield and as the Springfield Cardinals put up 11 runs in one inning, we noticed a young man sitting on the third row, diligently keeping score. “Are you still keeping score? “ We asked and he said he was. We looked at his scorecard—done in pencil as it’s supposed to be and could not believe it. We had to choose him for our “Fan of the Week.” Turns out he was in the area because he  was visiting his childhood best friend at the Lake of the Ozarks and drove over for the Cardinals game. He told us he has kept score at every game he’s attended since he was nine years old—and he still has the scorecards.

By Sally Tippett Rains

 Myles Susott says he was ‘born with a basketball in his hand” being from Indiana.

“I was born to live my whole life surrounded by basketball,” he said.  “I was my high school’s varsity statistician when I was in eighth grade.”

Despite the state being basketball-crazy especially at the time he was growing up, his family were a bunch of Cardinals fans, and he broke out of the basketball mold

“I grew up with my parents and younger sister in Elberfeld, Indiana,” he said  “I still live there today and there is nothing better than that town!

While he loves his town– his love for baseball – and specifically baseball numbers comes in a close second.

“My grandmother, Joan sat me down to watch Cardinals games growing up and showed me how they play the game.”

My family were all  die hard Cardinals fans, and would disown me if I ever rooted for any other NL Central team. That stems from my (Grandma Joan) who took my sister and I to games all the time when we were younger.”

Being around baseball, he was hooked, but beyond his love of the game he found he was passionate about the numbers.

“When I was in middle school I met my high school’s varsity head coach at the time, Coach Ted Thompson and he was the one who got me extremely passionate about the game. He is my biggest mentor in my dream career, which is to work in professional baseball, and we still talk multiple times a week.

Susott, a 19-year-old student at Evansville actually had part of his dream come true already because he works in baseball as he studies for his degree.

“I definitely have a distinct love for baseball,” Susott  told us as he kept score that summer evening at Route 66 Stadium in Springfield. “There has never been anything more calming and enjoying than a day at the ballpark for me, and when I got my first job in baseball it confirmed that it was something I wanted to do the rest of my life. Everyday I go to ‘work’ which means a game or practice, it’s never work to me. It’s fun and I get paid to do it.”

Who are his favorite Cardinals over the years?

“There are too many favorites to pick from, however I have extremely enjoyed watching Wetherholt this year,” said Susott. “When I first became a Cardinals fan, I was a big Tommy Pham fan. However, if you have a good WAR each season and help our team win, I will enjoy it!”

He can barely talk about players without getting into the stats. WAR stands for “Wins Above Replacement” –an advanced, all-encompassing statistic designed to estimate how many more total wins a specific player contributes to their team over the course of a season compared to a hypothetical “replacement-level” player

“The most memorable Cardinals game I’ve ever been to was when Yadier Molina, Adam Wainwright, and Albert Pujols’played their  last ever game together at Busch.

He remembers the Cardinals lost the game but it was a thrill for him to be there.

“I have to say the best Cardinals game I ever saw was when Tommy Pham hit a walk-off home run against the Tampa Bay Rays in 2017 during Hall of Fame weekend,” he remembers. “That was back when the players had custom jerseys for the Little League World Series with their nicknames on the back, so being 10 year old at the time, that was extremely cool for me to witness in person.

He was lucky to get a photo taken with his grandmother on the day of that game.

“The photo in the dugout  (shown left) is from the day Pham hit that  walkoff against the Rays,” he said “We were a part of the Cardinals Kids Club so that’s how we got into the dugout that morning.”

He has continued going to games either with someone or by himself, throughout his young life so far.

“I have also watched the Cardinals take on other elite talent as well, such as the Dodgers when they came to town in 2024 and Jacob Misiorowski when he pitched against us in Milwaukee on Memorial Day 2026.”

Susott says his “dream job” would be working in baseball and he is firmly entrenched in a dream job right now.

“I work for the University of Evansville’s baseball program,” he said. “I am a full-time student at UE, and then work for the baseball team.”

He is a sophomore, studying—you guessed it—Accounting. There are those numbers he likes.

“My baseball work generally takes up every bit of my free time, so I’m extremely busy but I wouldn’t have it any other way. I am super blessed to have found what I love and spend every day doing it!”

While most students are preparing for their future, Susott is grateful that the field he wants to be working in has opened up for him while he is still in college.

“We are a Division I Missouri Valley Conference team,” he said. “During practices, I do simple things to help out, such as feed the pitching machine, assist coaches, etc. I will also tag some BP sessions on our analytical system, TrackMan.”

The TrackMan is a Doppler radar tracking system used in baseball to measure precise ball flight and player performance metrics. This machine uses a combination of radar and optical sensors to track the trajectory of pitches and batted balls, providing actionable data for scouting and player development.

“I run the TrackMan system during the games. Basically, I look at the metrics on each pitch and tag what pitch it is and what happened on it. It is such a great job and I can’t thank our skipper, Wes Carroll, enough for having me hop aboard the train.”

He loves stats.  With his love of numbers, we asked him if he would consider himself a “nerd” as far as the statistics go

“If I’m not a nerd, then I’m definitely borderline!” he said. “My brain seems to be wired with numbers, and I’ve watched baseball the majority of the summers in my life.

“There’s just such a beauty about all of the numbers that can be produced from a baseball being thrown or hit. And there’s even more beauty in it when you can use numbers that stem from something that simplistic to turn a player’s career around and win ballgames for whatever team you work for.”

Along with his work with the Evansville baseball team, he also works for a summer league team.

“My baseball story would be incomplete without mentioning the collegiate summer ball team I work for, the Dubois County Bombers of the Prospect League,” he said. “Our team president, Justin Knepp, took a chance on a 17-year-old three years ago, mainly because I had a connection to someone in the ownership and went after the job.”

Once he got the job, he worked hard at it every day, and it paid off.

“Each year he kept promoting me and today I stand as the Press Box Manager and Analytical Coordinator,” said Susott. “I oversee everything that happens in the press box each game and make sure all the data is accurate. I also make sure all media personnel and coaches get whatever documents they need before they ask, like rosters, lineups, or pregame reports. This job has kickstarted me to most of the other opportunities that I have today. I can’t thank Justin enough for taking a chance on me and pushing me to be my best everyday.”

He says that while he loves what he is doing, he is still keeping the same goal he started with: work for a major league team.

“I want to work in a professional baseball press box or front office one day,” he says.

“There is nothing more satisfying than getting paid to do what you love everyday ,while helping others out in the process.”

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