Welcome to the Roadwire Prospect podcast. I'm your host James Anderson, and we're brought to you by Vivid Seats.

And for anyone who missed it, my 2025 relief pitching prospects ranking article went live on Sunday,

maybe my favorite article I do of the year, probably just because it's such a unique prospect

article.

There's so much overlap these days with what people are writing about, with what people are

talking about.

And it's just nice to still have something that I feel like is somewhat unique out there.

So check out that relief pitching prospect rankings article.

If you want Roto 15 for 15% off, Roto 15 is a code you can use at checkout there. My guest today is

Chris Welsh, who lives out in Arizona. Been on the show plenty of times before, obviously. And he

scouts the Arizona the arizona fall

league the arizona complex league which starts saturday chris has also been going to some

extended spring training games out in arizona so a great guy to have on for this episode because

chris and i are going to preview the three rookie leagues the the Arizona Complex League, the Florida Complex League,

and the Dominican Summer League. So Chris, thanks for joining me, man. How are you doing?

I'm doing good, my friend. I'm glad to be yapping with you about all of it. And it's a,

I will say it is weird for rookie ball to start on Saturday. That's the first I think I've ever

seen of that. And not that I, I mean, maybe it's a little like OCD of me. And it's like, can we start on a Monday or even a Tuesday? It does feel very weird because they're going to play and then they're going to have a day off. And then they're going to come back to it on Monday. But we are going to move away finally from people seeing me share videos and being like,

what league is this?

Where is this?

To sanctioned games because extended spring training and complex or as much as they are similar,

they're a little bit different worlds.

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