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First, I just want to say thanks to everyone who asked a question. I had a big plan to talk about

my favorite prospect sleepers for 2025 value,

figuring there might not be enough questions coming off the holiday weekend and with the season

winding down, but you guys delivered, and I just wanted to say thank you. I could not do this

without your support, and I don't take that for granted. So thank you for everyone to ask a question or subscribe for the prospect rankings,

which were fully updated Tuesday afternoon, early evening.

I was rushing to get those done.

So first question here from Chief F says after rough starts to their professional careers,

Kumar Rocker at 25th overall and Jack Leiter at 116 overall are both now ranked in the top

top 125.

Is this a lesson in patience when dealing with pitchers with prospect pedigree? Or are they

outliers in overcoming early professional struggles to write the prospect ship? He says, I understand

they've had different issues, but grouping them together because of the Vanderbilt connection.

We'll start with Kumar Rocker here.

There's no way to sort of scientifically prove this or even anecdotally prove this,

but I think Rocker's Tommy John surgery could go down as the best Tommy John surgery to date.

I think that was Dr. Keith Meister that performed that surgery on Rocker. Just in terms of the

pitcher and prospect he was before the surgery and the pitcher he was after returning,

I went back and looked on baseball reference just to see if like any of the sort of big real-life

rankings outlets had Rocker as a top 100 guy coming into the year,

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