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 full pen expert Rick Graham.

Rick, how's it going?

It's going well.

It's been a busy, busy week.

I think, with the winter meetings um you know some big big splashes

out there it's a little bit busier than usual um and a lot of disappointing fans on the east coast especially

um but it's you know it's it's it's all part of the it's all part of the, it's all part of the, you know, being a fan aspect, I guess. So, yeah, busy week. We got a lot to talk about reliever-wise, too. We're almost at the point where, you know, almost every closers kind of off the board or all the bigger name closers are off the board. So, yeah, it's, it's only been a week since we last talk,

but a lot to happen. Right. Usually I would take some time to talk about something off topic,

but we've got so much to get to. And like you mentioned, we're recording just a week after our last

podcast. Usually we go every other week in the off season. But the combination of my vacation next week combined with,

as you mentioned, the winter meetings, there's just so much to talk about. We wouldn't even

be able to fit this in if we had to wait another week. So we're going to jump right into it.

And we have so much to talk about today. As I meant, we both mentioned twice. The winter meetings

happened this last week.

During that, the Rule 5 draft occurred. There were plenty of free agent signings, one big trade.

We had some injury and news and some rumors swirling about as well. And then after we get through

all this things that have happened, all the news and

stuff, we'll talk about our main topic and discuss some sleepers on the swing and miss

side. So we'll look at guys that are good at getting whiffs, good at getting strikeouts,

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