Welcome to the Rotowire Prospect Podcast.

I'm your host, James Anderson, and we are brought to you by Sling.

And my guest today is Lucas Morel of Prospects Live.

And I'm really excited to have you on the show Lucas struggling with some

YouTube configurations there for a second. But Lucas is a fantastic voice in the

prospect space. I've been following him on Twitter for a while at the prospect prof on Twitter.

And we're going to talk about all of the sort of buzziest

hitting prospects that are sort of shooting up lists

and maybe even guys that aren't even on lists

that are gonna be added to lists.

But first, Lucas, since you recently wrote about

Noah Schultz and I recently ended up with more Noah Schultz than I was anticipating getting

in Fab this past Sunday, I thought we should just start there and discuss his excellent

2026. How do you feel about Schultz over the rest of 2026 and

beyond? How are you valuing Noah Schultz relative to guys like Peyton Tolly, Robbie Snelling,

Didier Fuentes, who just made the start today on Wednesday.

How are you kind of envisioning things for Schultz here as we go forward?

This is a really good time to talk about Schultz in relationship to these other names,

especially like you said, with Fuentes getting the call, with Peyton Tolly reportedly coming

up maybe later this week.

For me, I've always been kind of a Schultz skeptic. I have to be honest. I think I felt like

last year was confirming kind of my worst fears about him as a pitching prospect. I was worried about

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