Welcome to the Rotowire Prospect podcast. I'm your host, James Anderson, and got a solo show for you today.

Just got back from First Pitch, Arizona a few days ago. I want to give thanks to Brent Hershey, Ray Murphy, all the rest of the folks at Baseball HQ for another great weekend out in Arizona.

I had a great time hanging with the presenters, the attendees, hanging by the pool,

different panels, podcasts, playing wiffleball, made it to three games plus the home run derby.

I got to hang out with so many of you, so that was so much fun.

I presented twice, and the first presentation was advice for taking over an orphan dynasty

roster, and I just wanted to shout out Brian Slack, Matt Eddie, and J.T for contributing something to that presentation. I know I asked

J.T. and Matt Eddie specifically for that. I just kind of used some stuff Brian Slack gave me for

the pod. We did a couple months ago for that. But if anyone wants my notes from that presentation

on taking over an orphan dynasty roster,

just send me a DM on Discord or Twitter or Blue Sky.

I can share that with you.

But essentially, if you're rebuilding, if you're contending, you just got to be patient.

You got to maximize value every step of the way.

The second presentation I did was about prospects for

2026 and did that with Chris Welsh, Eric Cross, Jesse Severe. We had a lot of fun. But for today's

solo pod, I wanted to go through the rookies for 2026 and highlight them in order of how much I like them.

For the talk at first pitch, we did it in order of ADP, which I think is very useful.

I wanted to talk about the top 25 prospects for 2026 as I see it.

I'll mention the ADP as we go, but I thought that would be something worth getting in

podcast form here. And I'll also be doing an article version of this top 25 prospects for

26. If you want to check that out on rotowire.com tomorrow, Thursday, Roto 15 for 15%

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