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,

bowlpen expert, Rick Graham. Rick, it is spring training. And the WBC has started. It started yesterday.

We're reporting here on Thursday, March 5th.

So that's really exciting.

And also a lot of the industry leagues in fantasy baseball have begun.

Most notably, TGFBI, the Great Fantasy Baseball Invitational.

That's a big one.

Pretty much everybody's in that.

All you have to do is write one article or go on one podcast and you're you're in that league.

So that one's really exciting. There's a lot to talk about from those leagues. How are you feeling

about your draft so far? I'm feeling good. I mean, I always typically in that, I load up on offense early.

So offensively, I feel good.

I mean, infield set, outfields pretty good.

Pitching, so I'm in with Nick, with Nick Pollock, of pitcher list,

as well as some other pitcherless staff, John Key and Grant Washburn, former, yeah, pitcher lists. So there's like a little bit of, I know kind of a little bit of like some of the guys in the room and how they're going to, this is kind of the first year. I've, like, been in a room of a lot of people I know.

It's like, I kind of know, like, Yancey's in there, too. I've been in TGFBI with him before. They kind of have a little bit of idea how people are going. So I've, you know, I've still loaded up with bats, but I have been, you know, I ended getting a couple arms as well. but the closer run, and I think this has been a trend because in our

pitcherless discord, it's been like people have been just astonished at the,

how high closers have been going in their TGFBI leagues.

And the same thing happened in mine.

I think we had Mason Miller and Edwin Diaz both going the second round.

And then that just started a snowball effect where eventually I got Josh Hader as the 16th

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