Welcome to the Rotowire Prospect podcast.

I'm your host, James Anderson, and I've got a special holiday prospect mailbag for you on Christmas Eve here.

First, I just wanted to say thanks for all the nice messages I got and those responses.

I could definitely feel the holiday cheer coming from you guys.

And I submitted calls for questions on Twitter and the Road to our Discord channel and Blue Sky.

And Twitter was still the dominant source of the questions.

So I found that interesting for as much kind of engagement stuff as I'm

getting on blue sky. And as many of you are in the Discord room, it's still Twitter where a bunch

of the questions came from. So interesting stuff. All the prospects or pretty much all the prospects

that I'll be discussing have outlooks that I wrote up on rotowire.com and on the

Rotowire 2025 MLB draft kit app, which is available for purchase in the app store.

So if you want me to go into more detail about the tools or the 2025 outlook for a lot of

the prospects we'll be talking about.

I would recommend checking out their outlooks that are up on the site

and in advance of that big prospect rankings update

that will be on January 15th, the day that all the international prospects sign.

And you guys know I'm not like a huge self-promoter, but yeah, if you guys have been joined these podcasts all last season with minimal advertising and it would just mean a lot if you guys re-uped your baseball subscription.

And if you've already done that, subscribe to the YouTube channel. Like this video. And if you've done all

three of those, then I thank you very much. And I wish all of you very happy holidays. So let's get

to the questions. We'll start with one from Bob May. I got several questions here about

Matt Shaw that we'll be starting with. So Bob says it looks like

Matt Shaw, the Cubs has moved up your rankings. Do you expect him to be the opening day third

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