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

old pen expert Rick Graham. Rick, how you doing? I'm doing all right. You know, it's been,

again, another crazy week.

I'm just looking through all these transactions right now.

There's a lot of comings and goings as far as IL placements, you know, activations, placements.

Yeah, I'm just, it doesn't stop with relievers.

I will say, I mean, overall, though, that this is the year for anyone who is like

the anti-don't-draft closers, you know, mindset.

This was the year to do that because there's been so many guys found on the wire,

like legit and like pretty good options too that weren't drafted or were really late in

drafts.

So this was

definitely the year to do it um hopefully you were able to at least pick up someone or a few guys

especially if you you know you drafted edwin diaz or whatnot at the top and missed out so

yeah crazy the craziness doesn't end with relievers. It never stopped.

So let's just jump right in because, as you mentioned,

there were a ton of transactions with guys returning from the IL

and guys heading to the IL.

And we'll go through all of those before we get into our three-up, three-down section

where we discuss the closers rising and falling on Rick's weekly closer ranks.

And then we'll head into our main topic and look at the PLV and stuff plus leaderboards.

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