Welcome to the RotoWire Prospect Podcast. I'm your host, James Anderson, and we are brought to you by prize picks.

Use the promo code RotoPod for 100% deposit match on prize picks. My guest today is Chris Welsh.

You've heard about it on the show many times. I've been on his show many times.

In today's episode, we're going to be talking

about the next great prospects in minor league baseball. This is going to be part rookie

league preview and part full season check-in on the hitters who are in the same class as the

rookie level guys. So we will only be discussing hitting prospects who are 18 years old or younger on this episode.

So definitely a dynasty episode for you folks.

Chris, this is, I kind of went with 18 here because to me, the guys who are 19,

you know, they're age appropriate for single A right now.

Some of those guys are even at high A or double A.

And so I thought it would be kind of fun to just talk about all these guys who are basically

in one class or the class before that, the 2024 J15 class, 2023 J15 class, essentially, and then last year's draftees.

And all these guys are basically the same age.

So some of them are at, you know, double A, high, single A.

Some of them are going to open in rookie leagues.

But they're all making up two classes.

So I thought it would be good to kind of lump all these guys in together.

Yeah, we were having an interesting talk off air too where it's like, what's interesting

about some of these names are, you know, like once you hit that night, it's not necessarily

an age thing, but for a lot of like the Dominican or like high school guys that they'll end up

getting to complex, they have a little bit of short season play.

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