Hello and welcome to the In The Pen podcast, a podcast about relief pitchers, part of the Pitcher List Podcast Network.

My name is Jake Crumpler.

And as always, I'm joined by pitcher lists, bullpen expert Rick Graham.

Rick, how's it going?

Answer that and I got you a good follow-up.

It's going.

You know, we're, you know, cruising along to the end of the season.

Yeah.

You know, I think we were talking last week about how, like,

we're not sure if there isn't going to be any interesting, you know,

playoff races the last week of

the season but it's shaping up to be yeah right both both leagues have some some drama of like

the red sox just you know falling apart and the guardians playing out of their mind right now um

turn around so quickly yeah i mean that's and even like yeah there's there's even a chance Cleveland can catch Detroit and win the division. Like very, I mean, they have, I think, three more games with Detroit. So, yeah, I mean, anything is still possible. And then the Red Sox play Detroit, too, to end the year. So,, a lot of stuff happening in the AALs and the NL too.

Yeah, you know, the Mets are starting to play better at least.

So they might pull ahead of that race for the last wildcard spot.

But yeah, still very interesting baseball to be played.

It really is.

Yeah, we definitely discussed that last week, how it seemed like the last couple weeks

of the season, especially with the expanded playoff seem sort of inconsequential because

all of the teams sort of lock themselves in to a playoff spot and then there's not

much to play for because the teams that aren't going to make it have sort of fallen way out

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