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 spult pen expert, Rick Graham.

Rick, we are halfway through the baseball season.

As you can tell, by the title of this episode, we will be covering all the closers as we have reached the halfway

point in the season. How are you feeling? How are you feeling about your fantasy teams? How

you feeling about surviving the rest of the season? Because this is really, really like July and

August, July is a little bit easier because of the All Star break, home run, Derby trade deadline.

It's really exciting. But it's it's the dog days of summer now. Yeah, this is,

you know, this time of year where all the other sports are done, you know, NBA finals just

wrapped up, NHL finals wrapped up, football is still too early. So yeah, this is just all, it's baseball

season right now for, for everyone. I, you know, it's the being the midway point it's it's good especially if

you're in like rhodo leagues it's like you know you're never fully out of it if you have half a season

you can always you know make a comeback so as of now i'm feeling pretty i mean i don't know if i'm

gonna finish in first in any leagues but i'm definitely i'm not out of it, I'm feeling pretty... I mean, I don't know if I'm going to finish first in any leagues,

but I'm definitely...

I'm not out of it anywhere.

I'm in the top half of most leagues,

so feeling pretty good.

I've been mostly lucky with injuries.

That's the thing.

It's, you know, just trying to stay healthy and, you know,

make sure I don't have too many iL or guys clogging up spots who are just injured but

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