Welcome to the Rotoire prospect podcast.

I'm your host James Anderson, and we are live with the great Jim Callis.

And we do this show every year.

Jim is kind enough to give me some of his time and tell us about all these draft prospects.

And it's an interesting class this year, Jim.

MLB Pipeline has Ethan Holiday ranked number one in this class.

There's Eli Willits, Ava Arquette, Billy Carlson, and Jojo Parker are the other four hitters in the top 10,

but they're kind of in the five to ten range with Holiday at one. So my first question for you is,

is Ethan Holiday in a tier by himself among the position player prospects in this class? Or would you

include like a Willits or others with him in that top tier um

i think willets is kind of on the top tier as well sorry i have a camera problem there for second

will it's on top tier as well like nobody's really separate themselves in this class at all james

and that makes that's what makes it tough is it's not like last year or 2023, even though we do

have Ethan Holiday number one. And I like him a lot as a player. If Ethan Holiday was in

23, I don't think he goes in the top five picks. If he was in last year's draft, I don't think

he necessarily goes in the top seven picks. He and Willits are different types of players. I do think

it's them apart from everybody else, but again, not by a wide margin. With Holiday, it's more,

you know, that power ceiling. He's built like his dad, Matt, more than his brother Jackson,

hits left-handed unlike his dad.

But, you know, the type of guy that you could dream of 40 homers a year from Ethan Holiday.

Whereas Willits is more of that well-rounded player.

At the same stage of their careers, kind of similar to Anthony Volpe, but I think he's quicker than Anthony Volpe was at the time.

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