Good morning, everybody.

It is Rich Wilson.

It is December 28th at 11.30 in the morning here on the east coast in the Ocean Island, which is where I live, part of the time.

And it has absolutely been a beautiful holiday weekend i hope everybody has

enjoyed their christmas and is looking forward to the new years as they sit here today it is

uh 74 degrees so and uh just it's been absolutely beautiful on christmas day i play bachi ball

on the beach and it's just ridiculous, right? So, uh, so life is good.

And I hope, again, everybody enjoyed their Christmas and time with family. And I hope you got all the

gifts that you want it. I hope you got a chance to, uh, to listen to some podcasts that we've been doing.

I saw the downloads really like downloads on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day,

which I assume would be the case,

and then it all made up over the last couple of days as you've got to get distracted by something.

So hopefully this will provide you some distractions as well.

Today we're going to be covering the Los Angeles Dodgers and the San Diego Padres minor league systems.

And, you know, they're not, I think the Tampa Bay Rays is the top system.

If you told me that the Padres should be the top system, you can make that argument.

You can almost make the argument that I don't think they are the top system,

that the Dodgers could also be in that conversation.

I think both of these are top 10 systems, probably top five systems as well.

The Dodgers have just done a remarkable job at not trading their young stud players.

They've had a chance on Cody Bellinger, Alex Verdugo, all the back to Jack Peterson and

Corey Seeger.

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