Welcome to the Road to Wire Prospect podcast.

I'm your host, James Anderson, and this week's guest is the great Jeff Ponce of

Baseball America.

Jeff, the minor league season is wrapped up.

The AFL is underway.

World Series is underway.

How you've been spending the past few weeks?

Yeah, well, I was out in Arizona for the opening week of the fall league, was out there for,

I guess the first six game days flew in on Monday afternoon and flew out on Sunday morning,

but got in 12 AFL games over that six-day period in time and saw,

you know, I think all teams but Peoria four times. I saw Peoria three times. And then,

you know, besides that, it's sort of the beginning of handbook season for us. So sort of been working

on some, you know, wrap up articles at the end of September for season for us. So sort of been working on some,

you know, wrap up articles at the end of September for the season, just kind of looking

at some different data points, et cetera. And now it's just diving into the top tens and then top

30s. And we have those lists sort of sort of in production. And, you know, I've just been writing,

sitting here at my desk

writing a lot of uh scouting reports over the last week plus so it's fun it's probably the part

of the job that i enjoy the most you know is not having to have like the the weekly deadline of

like this article needs to be done and am i picking the right guys? It's like kind of go through your systems.

You work all year for this and then it's kind of the culmination of all of your scouting

notes and the data that we have access to and then just obviously your own looks and

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