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 pitcher lists, full pen expert,

Rick Graham.

Rick and I were just watching some Reds and Royals baseball, watching Lucas Urseg melt down once again.

And that is sort of what we're going to talk about today.

As always, we're going to talk about relievers.

We're going to touch a little bit on Lucas Erseg and that Royals bullpen.

We'll also look around at some of the rest of the league, how other pitchers are performing, how healthy pitchers have been.

And how are you feeling about the landscape right now in terms of relievers, Rick?

I mean, we're getting now, you know, we're getting to a point where I think closers are starting

to stabilize for sure. I mean, we're like what,, like a Kenley Jansen and Emilio Pagan health, away from having like 20 plus closers that are, you know, closer, closer, like, you know, locked in closers. Yeah. Which we haven't seen in, you know, for a while, you know, going back to last year probably. So, yeah, we're

getting there. Like putting together the closer list today, I feel pretty strong. Like the top,

you know, 18 is pretty, you know, I want not interchangeable one through 18, but, you know, there's

not a huge drop off from, you know, like three to 18 anymore. So I think we're starting

getting some stability in the closer role, but that's, that still leaves, you know, 10 plus teams

that we're trying to figure out what's, what's going on there, you know. All right. Yeah, that's

usually where we put our focus is on those undecided bullpens to sort of help us and help our listeners figure out what they can do in fantasy to pick up some saves or pick up some hold.

So today we're going to cover the news and notes from the past week.

We'll talk about the closers rising and falling on Rick's weekly closer ranks.

And then we'll look at some relievers who have been unlucky or lucky based on their ERA estimators compared to their ERA on the season. So let's jump

right in to the transaction, starting with Drew Pomeranz, who was activated from the 15-day

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