Welcome to the Rotoire Prospect Podcast. I'm your host, James Anderson, and today's

episode will be a special episode where I will answer all of your questions about the

Top 400 Prospect Rankings Update, which went live on the site Monday night, January 15th.

That includes the international players who signed on January 15th.

Since then, the team top 20s are also updated to reflect the update,

and I'll be doing more work on those in the coming weeks to kind of fill in for the non-top 400 guys

towards the back of the weaker farm systems.

The ETAs are fully updated.

The OBP arrows are updated for hitters.

The top 100 first-year player draft rankings are fully updated on the site.

You can find those under the Prospects tab.

The first-year player draft blueprint was pushed back just so I could get the top 400 done on the 15th, but that'll be up either Thursday or Friday as well. The dynasty rankings will be

updated sometime next week. So the main takeaway here is that it's the perfect time for you to sign up

for your 2024 RodeWire baseball subscription.

For the most part, everyone who asked a reasonable question, got one answered on the pod.

And if you ask multiple questions, I will still try to answer all of them in the article version,

but that'll be up on the site tomorrow Thursday.

And then if you asked a question on the Rotowire Discord channel specifically for the pod, that gets you move to the front of the

line for these mailback episodes. So without further ado, we'll start off with Aaron Wade. He says,

I know you say to not pay too much attention

to the double down arrows with these updates but any specific reason drew Thorpe dropped around

15 spots or just needing to make room for new guys if anything he thought thorpe's long-term

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