Welcome to the Roadwire Prospect podcast. I'm your host James Anderson. And this will be my final podcast of the regular season. But I'm going to be back with a bunch of weekly podcasts on Wednesdays this off season. And those will get going in a few weeks so before the end of the playoffs

and then I will have a final top 400 prospect rankings update live on roadwire.com

early next week that of course is my sort of final update of the 2023 season and my final update of

2023 period because I don't update them again until after all the international free agents

sign on January 15th and of course that will just be a massive month or so of first year player draft content to go

along with that big update and we'll be talking plenty about prospects in between now and then

and then I just wanted to thank everyone for all the great questions you've sent in this season and for this episode as well.

But let's just get things going.

First question from my buddy Todd Whitestone.

Todd and I are in the hunt for some NFBC leagues this year.

It's been another great year partnering with Todd.

So Todd's question is for 2024 only,

what are your expectations for the young hitters in the Baltimore organization

in terms of level?

And then he says in parentheses,

obviously Gunner Henderson anderson and adly rushman

are major leaguers and production uh so for for gunner henderson um you know i think he's going to be

even better next year than he was this year uh he's been basically a 280 hitter for most of the season

he just hit 170 with 25 walks in his first hundred at bats.

And basically ever since then, he's just been exactly as advertised, just a five-category

contributor.

So I think he just kind of picks up where he left off and he probably

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