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 pitcherless, bullpen expert.

As you can tell, I'm sick.

If you've been listening to the first pitch podcast, you already knew that.

If you just listen to my voice at the start of this podcast, you probably already knew that as well.

But luckily, Rick is not sick.

So he's going to carry us through this podcast.

How are you feeling about that tall task?

Yeah, as I get it like a little like horse right now.

But yeah, no, we'll, yeah, well, thank you for grinding through this. We'll, we'll get through it. I'll carry the load if needed. But, yeah, this is, yeah, we'll get through it. We'll get through it. Oh, yeah. No, we, we are strong and I have the Rick's vibes pulling me through.

I've already made it through two podcasts this week while sick.

What's a third one?

Today, we're going to talk about relief pitchers and we're going to focus on the bullpins that

probably still don't have answers.

It's been a wild week in fantasy baseball in terms of bullpen specifically where we've

just seen so many different

guys get saves it's it's almost ridiculous at this point it's almost its own comedy but we're

going to touch on that but first we're going to cover the news and notes from around the league

from the past week before we get into rick's rankings and discuss the closers rising and falling on them.

So let's start with the transactions from the past week.

Aniel de los Santos, Arrides for the Astros was activated from the 15-day IL after missing time

with a knee strain.

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