Hello and welcome to the In The Penn 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's full pen expert, Rick Graham.

Rick, it's hot.

It's the end of July.

We are nearing the end of this super busy month,

especially for me, both inside and outside of baseball. But the trade deadline is here,

and that is what we are here to bring. Our listeners today is a full trade deadline show,

as we should be post-tr trade deadline for our next episode.

So this one will be our final prep before we reach the deadline.

But Rick, how's it going?

How are you feeling about the deadline?

How much does like your workload increase in terms of articles and stuff during the deadline?

Yeah.

I mean, like you said, it's, it's hot outside.

It's also the stove is now getting hot for trade deadline.

That wasn't sure exactly which one you were alluding to, actually, when you said that.

Yeah, so, you know, yeah, it's, I mean, we, we just, right before we started this podcast,

kind of a big trade happened, so we'll break it down for you in a little bit. But yeah, I mean, trade deadline doesn't necessarily make more work. It's just like, you know, trying, well, I guess it kind of makes everything, you know, you're just looking at depth charts and, you know, who's going to be the next man up in

these spots, who's going to lose their role with guys getting traded there. So it's a lot of

roster, you know, maneuvering and just seeing what the ramifications of each move is. So

next week is going to be, yeah, next week will probably be the most, you know, as far as

in-season research and, you know as far as in season research and you know

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