Welcome to the Roadwire Prospect podcast brought to you by Batflip, the team shuffling baseball card game.

I'm your host James Anderson, and it's going to be a rookie league focused show for us in Deep Dynasty leagues.

All the rookie leagues are underway, and i couldn't think of anyone better to

have on than my buddy chris welsh who's out in arizona uh sees a ton of complex league ball

uh so thanks so much for joining me welsh how you doing i am very very excited to be here it's a great

week get to talk with you. Opening of Complex

League. I've been out. I haven't like been at, I didn't do extended spring training.

Pretty much in spring training. I've just kind of been hauled up in my office here, just

analyzing sports, doing all that type of stuff. But there is a freedom of being out at ballparks.

And these, you know, it feels like little league

stuff, you know, watching games through fences and stuff like that. And I finally got to do that.

So I feel a little bit more like myself, James, is what I'm saying, back out at fields. And I've

already hit a couple and I'm excited to talk about them. Yeah, everything's back to normal now.

I've got the complex action going up in your backyard.

So I did, I had an article that went up on, on Rotowire earlier today where I was

kind of showing my kind of rankings, my personal rankings of the, the hitters in these

three leagues.

And I noticed like maybe for the first time ever, it seems like the ACL, the Arizona Complex

League might be a bit more loaded, at least near the top, than the Arizona Complex League.

And I think part of that is just the amount of high-end guys who got jumped over the Arizona Complex League

and went to single A, Ethan Salas, most notably among them, the top guy from last year,

or from this year's J-13 class or J-15 class, but then also also Josway DePaula, Nelson Rada, Luis Lara, all would have been in the ACL,

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