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's full pen expert, Rick Graham.

Rick, we are into the off season.

How are you doing?

How are you feeling about the months ahead, the dark, wintery, cold months ahead?

For me in Boston, yeah, sure.

Maybe not as much for you.

It's been raining.

It's been pouring.

Yeah.

Okay, rainy, yeah, but not as cold.

It's been cold here.

It's been, you know, getting up, it's been like 30 degrees in the morning.

So we're fully into that late fall creeping into early winter territory in Boston.

But yeah, this was actually, you know, it hasn't been a ton of moves.

Obviously, yeah, it's November 20th um but this week was

kind of i mean it was kind of kind of fun with the all the um you know the qualifying offer stuff

is going to happen tomorrow and then you know on wednesday i think it was with the deadlines for

um the rule five rule five draft which led a lot of teams to be you know

making moves kind of fill up filler to open up roster spots right um so a lot of moving

you know maybe not the biggest names if you're especially if you're only in like closer

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