Welcome to the Roto Wire Prospect podcast. I'm your host, James Anderson, and we're brought to you by Pick Six, the new fantasy game from Draft Kings. You can use code RW Picks for $50 in Pick Six credits with a $5 deposit. My guest this week is Carlos Colazo, Baseball America.

We're going to be talking all things, 2024 MLB draft.

That's coming up here in less than two weeks.

Really excited for that.

Carlos and the crew over there have been putting out awesome content as usual.

And Carlos, as you know, I don't follow the draft year- year round so when i was kind of going in for my first sort of passes on these players uh it really stood out to me just how insane the hitting

numbers were for the college position players in the class And it just really kind of seemed like even more

over the top than usual. And then I saw some articles from you and from Jeff Ponce about the run

scoring environment in college right now, all the different factors that kind of go into that with,

you know, hot baths, hot balls balls. Obviously there are some smaller parks.

And so can you kind of talk about just that, that run scoring environment in college baseball?

Because it does seem like the strength of this draft is the college position players and, you know,

actually bat first position players at that.

Yep.

Yeah, I think that's exactly right.

I do think that you probably should be very cautious if you are looking at offensive

numbers for college hitters and comparing them to like some draft classes from five

years ago or so just because you're probably going to get the incorrect assumption that

these are like players who are markedly

better than that trap class. I do think it is a strong college hitting class. It's probably a

solid average or maybe slightly above average group for that demographic specifically.

But yeah, contextualizing them accurately, just given the run environment in college

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