Hello and welcome to the In The Pen Podcast, a podcast about relievers, part of the Pitcherless Podcast Network.

My name is Jake Crumpler, and as always, I'm joined by pitcherless bullpen expert, Rick Graham.

We are on December 11th right now.

We are recording a day early, and that is because I am heading out for vacation tomorrow.

But nonetheless, this whole week has been the winter meetings, and boy, has it been super exciting.

Honestly, one of the best winter meetings I've experienced this far.

And for you, I think you can say, I guess both of our teams made big splashes, the Giants inked Willie Adomis to the largest contract in franchise history.

And earlier today, was that today?

Can't keep anything straight anymore.

The Red Sox traded for Ace Garrett Crochet, which is really awesome.

So how are you feeling about that?

I mean, you know, you get the Raldus Chapman signing and now we come back around and now you got

something that you're for.

Right,

exactly.

I'm happy.

I'm very happy with it.

I know it's,

I feel like it's one of those win-win deals for both teams.

I know that the socks gave up a pretty good prospect package.

Like three guys in there, I think, could be like everyday players potentially.

So that hurts. But at the same time, the socks have a lot of depth offensively,

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