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 and editor-in-chief, Rick Graham. Rick, how you doing? How have you been bringing in the new year?

Yeah, I've been doing well, you know, getting a little acclimated to the new role. And

it's been a busy time as we ramp up to the, we're almost through, you know, almost at Hitchcon,

and what's that two weeks from now. And then, oh, man, you know, then after that, we're looking at fantasy draft guys, draft kits. And, you know, the fantasy season's right around the corner. So, yeah, it's, um, exciting time, busy time. But yeah, it's, it's, this is when the, the fun starts to begin. I feel like in January, you know, football playoffs are always, you know, I know you're not a big football guy, but at least I enjoy the NFL playoffs and like college football playoffs.

And now, yeah, going into baseball season, good time.

Right.

It's going to be a big year for pitcher list this year.

I cannot believe pitchcon is coming up that quickly, but I am very excited for it.

It's usually a must-see event.

It's sort of taken over the fantasy world, especially in that time.

It's almost like the event that sort of kicks off fantasy baseball season.

You get everybody from the industry going there and just gushing over how much they love baseball.

And then you really,

it really gets you excited for the upcoming season.

So that should be a blast.

We've probably got a bunch of stuff lined up, big surprises for pitchcon.

Definitely a must-see event.

But we are here to talk about relief pitchers as usual.

That's usually what we do on the in the Penn podcast.

The past like three episodes, we've talked exclusively transactions.

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