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 pitcher lists full pen expert Rick Graham.

Rick, how's it going?

I know we have a podcast today.

We're off next week.

So, you know, listeners enjoy the moment while we have a podcast today. We're off next week, so, you know, listeners, enjoy the

moment while we have it. But how's it going, Rick? How are you feeling?

Feeling good to talk about baseball. But, yeah, it's a lot of fallout. I feel like still from

the trade deadline, especially when it comes to relievers

and closer i mean we're going to talk about like 12 situations that are kind of up in the air

um so yeah it's um that time of year where yeah those chasing saves or in need of you know

keeping the lead in saves it's like these

little these little pickups adding in the guys like you know Jose for rare could be like a huge

difference maker it's like guys you didn't think of at the beginning of the season that's right

well we thought about it but that's why you listened to this all right all right, let's jump right into things as we've got plenty of stuff to talk about.

We'll start off as always with the news injuries and transactions from the past week in the fallout of the trade deadline.

We'll start it with our news and this is still trade deadline adjacent as Shelby Miller, who's been out for the past few weeks with a forearm strain,

is expected to be activated from the 15-day IL tomorrow, which is Friday, to join the Brewers post-ded deadline trade.

He was traded by the Diamondbacks to the Brewers in a very small deal, a very weird one that also included Jordan Montgomery

going one way and a player to be named later going the other.

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