Hello and welcome to the In The Pen podcast, a podcast about relievers, part of the

Piturless Podcast Network.

My name is Jake Crumpler, and as always, I'm joined by Rick Graham, pitcherless,

bullpen expert. And we actually

have a special guest today. We are joined, uh, most graciously by Mike Carter. Mike, how are you doing?

It's, uh, great to have you on. Thank you guys for having me. I'm, I really appreciate it.

It's, uh, the night before I leave for Tow Wars. And so it's a good distraction from my nerves that are going about 100 miles an hour.

So thank you guys for having me on and talking about our favorite thing, which is bullpens.

Yeah, it's really, it's really draft season right now. Rick and I, Rick's joining my home league and we've got our draft going tomorrow.

And then he's also got Tout this weekend this weekend but Rick how are you doing?

Doing well just like I know the feeling Mike last year being my first tout.

It's a little nerve-wracking the first year definitely but looking forward to seeing you and everyone else down there definitely a great weekend and then yeah looking forward to you know

this Friday night Jake we got my first year and year your home league draft that should be

some fun as well so yeah big draft weekend for me coming up that's right um and as we near ever

closer to the regular season starting uh we we got you know the soul series starting next week but

two weeks from today uh we're recording on Thursday the 14th.

Two weeks from today, we'll have real opening day.

So it's really the height of draft season right now.

And that means it's perfect time to start going over our bullpen previews for the season.

We're going to split them into two episodes.

This one will be the American League episode, and that's why we brought White Sox fan Mike on. So, great timing. Yeah. Yeah, they really did make a lot of moves, and we'll

have plenty of time to talk about those. We'll talk about some of the news that's come out over the

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