Welcome to the Road to Wire Prospect podcast brought to you by Winbet.

I'm your host, James Anderson.

And this week, I'm very happy to be joined by Chris Welsh, who I've done dozens of podcasts with over the years,

and who is fortunate enough to be out in Arizona.

So who better to bring on to talk about prospects than a guy who's been out on the backfields, getting eyes on them all spring. Chris, how are you doing? What's up, buddy? Dozens. I don't know. I mean, I'd say, I feel like it's close to like 100. It's probably not, but a lot of podcast. Prospect one, had you on ITL.

I've done your shows. We have, we, if we go more than two months without a show, there might be like a check-in. We usually have. We're like, hey, what's up, buddy? Like both of us, we're like checking in with each other to make sure that we're good. But yeah, it's good to be on, good to talk prospects. and I am a little, I gotta tell you, a little sad,

not just a little congest I gotta tell you, a little sad,

not just a little congested from being out so much

and the allergies are horrible in Arizona.

But I'm like a tiny bit sad because today

as we're recording represented the end of all of the minor league

spring training that was going on out here.

It's awesome that minor league season is going to start up,

but I've had the freedom on a given day being able to cruise out

and see three different teams on their backfields and see,

you know, double A here and single A here,

and here's the Dodgers and here's the Rangers

and getting to see these guys in person,

kind of on a whim, you could almost cover the entire Cactus League in a week of minor league prospects. And that's gone. So like I'm a little lonely. It's kind of like your kids growing up and leaving the house. And I'm like empty nestor. So I'm just like, okay, want to talk about prospects? Okay, that's cool. I got nothing else to do. Yeah, Arizona's the absolute best for

watching a ton of baseball with minimal effort. I mean, you could just get everywhere, like you said,

in less than an hour. So what I wanted to do today is I want to start off by getting three

prospects who surprised you in a positive way and one prospect

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