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

My name is Jake Crumpler, and as always, I'm joined by pitcher lists, full pen expert Rick Graham.

Rick, this is the final offseason podcast of the 2025, 2026 off season, which means next week we'll be

recording on like the first full day of opening day. We were talking before the podcast. The first

day of the season is a Wednesday and it's just one game, Yankees versus Giants, but then we'll get

14 games on Thursday.

So I'm really looking forward to it.

How are you feeling?

Are you ready for the season to start?

Are you sort of just like scrambling, trying to get your ducks in a row before everything

gets underway?

I'm ready to get going here.

You know, the lead up to the regular season is always the busiest time of year for us.

Or just, yeah, the fan.

I mean, I don't think I only have two more drafts.

I still have a couple slow drafts that are, you know, chipping away.

Yeah.

Razz slam for one.

That's always like draft and hold sort of.

Yeah.

So, yeah, that's, I mean mean that and i'm also doing a dc this year on uh nfpc decided to go into that so that's you know 50 rounds

we're still we're round 40ish right now so we're we're getting there yeah big baller yeah yeah we'll

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