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The Welcome to the Roto Wire prospect podcast sponsored by WinBet.

I'm Clay Link here with RotoWire.com's lead prospect analyst, James Anderson.

James, great to be chatting with you as always.

We got our walk-up song draft at the end of the show and your article this week

going to be our primary topic of discussion.

You put a spotlight on the minor league hard hit data, which we have on the site,

which is a tremendous resource, which I myself don't spend enough time digging into.

It's just kind of a treasure trove they're waiting for me.

Yeah.

Treasure trove of data.

Yeah, we've got it dating back, I think, four minor league seasons now.

So, I mean, you could even just compare a guy versus what he was doing in 2019 and see if he's improved.

You know, as I laid out in the piece, this isn't as scientific as what you're going to see on baseball savant for big leaguers.

There's a lot of like the the sports info solution video scouts just kind of track everything and figure out whether it's hard, medium, or soft based on the trajectory location, et cetera.

So, you know, I think there's a margin for error here that you have to consider when you're looking at it.

But I would, in my opinion, it's accurate enough

that I think it's very valuable. And the fact that you just can't really get this type of data

for minor leaguers in the public sphere just makes it all the more valuable.

So it's a big time tool that I use when I'm doing my rankings.

I mean, it's not the be all end all, though.

I kind of wanted to sort of stress that because, you know,

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