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Derek Van Riper here with Enosaris. The minor league season has begun. So we'll talk about a few

observations from opening day there. We're going to bring back Prospect of the Week already.

It took one day of minor league games for Prospect of the Week to come back to life. We'll talk about some things that we think might be actionable with prospects coming out of 2020. Of course, all the missing information from last year is going to lead teams and prospect analysts and keeper in Dynasty League players to have to make quicker decisions about players and their evaluations

of those players.

I've got some really good stuff here about X stats too, some questions that are rolling in,

so we'll get to those later on in the show.

But, you know, let's just start with some minor league chatter.

And I'm excited to have the games back because I love minor league stats. I love seeing highlights

from prospects and it didn't take long for Wander Franco to make some highlights, three hits

in his debut at AAA Durham. The starting assignments for a lot of prospects was something

that I was very interested in as

those started to roll out last week.

And I think it gives us a pretty good understanding of where organizations are seeing players

from a development standpoint.

How far did they go in a year without games?

You know, like if Wander was an A ball player pre-pandemic and he's a AAA guy now,

obviously I think he's knocking on the door being Big League ready.

That's kind of an obvious.

That's like a low-hanging fruit, one that we already knew.

But when we see it with a guy like Alec Manoa in the Jay's organization, a college pitcher

who only pitched at short season ball, which doesn't even exist anymore, when we see a guy

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