Dynasty team lead Greg is joined by Ryan as they take a peek into the second base rankings and discuss some risers, fallers and some sleepers throughout the major leagues and minors. 

They of course had to hit on some of the recent news around the world in major league baseball including Paul Skenes Debut Patch being pulled and Junior Caminero's monstrous homerun to bring home the winter league title. Also discussed some recent transactions and a brief chat about the recent non-roster invitees to Spring Training. 

To skip past the witty banter and get straight to the second base talk fast-forward to 19:00

In the second episode of Prospects Live positional series breakdowns, Tom (@tagates99) and Greg (@greghoogkamp) discuss the First Base position, it's depth, overrated and underrated players, sleepers and prospects. It's an important position to get production from and the top players can carry you when they are going good. There are some prospects that also demand your attention as well. Listen in for some good dynasty discussion.

Favorite First Basemen discussion
HOF inductions, Roki, Dodgers bullpen signings, Santander to Blue Jays
PLive updates (Top 1000, Trade Analyzer, Trade Match Tool, Dynasty Pickups Pod (J15 draft), FYPD ADP article, Organizational Top 20's (Guardians), Stadium Network shows (Cubs/White Sox)
First Base assessment, Top 10 Dynasty
Overrated, Underrated, Sleepers
Top 10 Prospects, Overrated, Underrated, Sleepers
Utility Strategy, Top 10

The minor leagues have had a lot of change take place in recent years and it has had an effect on the game both positively and negatively. Shrinking the number of teams and levels, rule changes and experiments and team development philosophies have all had a huge impact on the product at the major league level.

Greg (@greghoogkamp) talks with Matt (mdthomp_plive) and Geoff Pontes (@geoffpontesba) of Baseball America (and former PLive founder) talk about what has taken place and the implications for the game and for dynasty.

How Prospects Live came to be 6 years ago
Bob Ueker memories and Roki Sasaki update
News at PLive
State of the Minor Leagues

• Outlining the changes (league structure, player pay, union, housing etc)
• Rule changes (pitch clock, shifting, bigger bases, pickoffs/stepoffs), three batter minimum, automatic runner, different baseballs, ABS Challenge system etc
• How teams use their affiliates for development
• Pitching development
• What does the future hold for the Minor Leagues (Diamond Baseball Holdings, MiLB CBA, MiLB Professional Development License)
• How should dynasty mangers use their minor league systems based on this discussion?

Tom Gates (@tgates99) and Greg Hoogkamp (@greghoogkamp) discuss the catching position and how to maximize value. It's a risky position, but one that has improved immensely over the last few seasons. Listen here for our top 10 dynasty catchers and top ten catching prospects along with overrated, underrated and sleeper options.

Our favorite catchers of all time
Roki, Jeff Hoffman and other signings
PLive News
Catching position strategy/positional depth
Top 10 discussion
The next wave - young catchers on the cusp
Underrated catchers
Sleeper catcher
Top 10 catching prospects
Underrated catching prospect
Overrated catching prospects
Sleeper catching prospect
Final thoughts

First Base Preview next week!

Greg (@greghoogkamp) is joined by special guest (and fellow Canadian) Thomas Nestico (@tjstats) to discuss advanced statistics and his assortment of analytical tools. Thomas gives you his background in baseball, why he started TJStats and his goals for the future. Make sure you subscribe to his work!

Origin of TJ Stats
Offseason moves/Blue Jays discussion
Prospects Live news and notes
Analytics Preamble
TJStats Tools
Most important data points for hitters and pitchers
MLB/MiLB trends
Bold pitcher predictions
TJStuff+
Players we changed our minds on
Deeper pitching prospects to watch/Roki
Goals for Thomas moving forward/Closing

Tom Gates and Greg Hoogkamp talk about the recently completed major league portion of the Prospects Live Dynasty startup. In this episode they go over their strategy and how well they executed it, how they feel about their teams, trends in the draft and how they reacted to them and their feedback on picks they think could provide good value and picks they probably could have waited on.

Opening: Remembering Rickey Henderson
MLB/MiLB news (Tucker trade, Bellinger trade, Devin Williams trade and more)
PLive news
PLive Dynasty startup general conversation
First five rounds, strategy and execution discussion
Rounds 6-10, team balance and construction43:41...Draft trends and adjustments
How to value injured players/players coming off surgery
Picks we think can provide good value/picks we think we could have waited on
Favorite picks after Round 25
Final thoughts