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, what a trade deadline.

We are here to break down all of the moves that are related to relief pitchers.

It could have included a lot more based on how many relief pitching prospects were traded,

but we'll definitely have time to talk about those guys as they're called up later through the year.

But boy, there's so much to talk about. Rick, how are you feeling after this wild past couple of days,

especially as a relief pitching expert because there were so many big name closers traded?

Yeah, it's a bit exhausted.

I'm trying to, I feel like last night, especially being on the East Coast, like a lot of stuff started happening late last night.

So I'm like, all right, deals keep coming in. I'm going to stay up for a little bit. So I went to bed late last night, got up early tonight, this morning hoping deals would start trickling in. And they did pretty early. So, yeah, and they didn't really stop throughout the day. So we have, I don't even count how many trades that happened in the market market but yeah scrambling trying to put together updated like closer ranks which it's like there's 10

spots now that's like there's like 20 pretty sure closer jobs right now but then there's like 10

teams where it's like i don't i don't know it's It's kind of wait and see or wait until we hear from things.

We can just guess and speculate.

But yeah, I mean, from a relief market, it was crazy.

Always expect relievers to go, but I don't think I expected the guys with term.

As many guys that had like term left on on their deal to go usually there's a few

but like this this year's feel like there's a lot um from a red sox fan point of view it was a terrible

awful day um back to back years where it's just been a huge massive letdown at the deadline.

I do think the Red Sox came out.

The worst team today, I don't know how you can see otherwise.

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