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Good morning and welcome to episode 621 of Effectively Wild, the daily podcast from Baseball

Perspectus presented by the play index at baseballreference.com. I'm Ben Lindbergh of Grantland, joined

by Sam Miller of Baseball Perspectus. Hello. Yo. Yo. How are you? Okay. So we intended for

this to be the Brewer's season preview podcast. Turns out there are not a lot of Brewer's

writers. So your options are more limited when you're trying to schedule Brewer's guests

for what I understand than with most teams. So we should have the Brewer's podcast tomorrow

and then we'll just do a listener email show today instead and get back onto the team preview

podcast schedule tomorrow. So before we start, we want to do a quick plug. It's a subject

close to our hearts lately. We talked last week if you listen to Friday's podcast, we

announced that we are serving as the baseball operations department for the Sonoma Stompers,

an independently team in Sonoma, California this summer and writing a book about it, which

will be out at some point next year. And some people in the Facebook group were talking

about buying Stompers gear. I know some people already did. If you are interested in supporting

the Stompers by wearing some sort of apparel that says Sonoma Stompers on it, the homepage

link is stompers baseball.com. When you go to the homepage, you'll see a big image that

says it will take you to the store. It's not lying. It will take you to the store. If you

click on it, there's also a store link at the top. And there are all manner of baseball

items there, including actual baseballs and and trucker hats. And probably the the number

one item on Sam Miller's wish list would probably be the black hoodie that says Sonoma

Stompers. I think that would be. I do like a black hoodie. And wearing one right now,

not a stompers one, but wearing a black hoodie right now. About seven weeks straight.

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