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Hello and welcome to episode 925 of Effectively Wild, the daily podcast from baseball perspectives presented by our supporters on Patreon and the baseball reference play index

I'm Ben Lundberg of 538 joined by Sam Miller of baseball perspectives

Hello!

Hey Ben!

Congratulations to the Sonoma Stompers, the team that we helped run last season and wrote a book about

They clinched the first half of their season yesterday, which means that they get a spot reserved in the final playoff game

Unless they win the second half of the season in which case they wouldn't even have to play that

So does the Stompers success in the first half?

And it was kind of a dogfight, it came down to the wire last year we had a very easy first half run

But they did not, they had to fight it out, but they did

Does their success in any way retroactively influence your opinion of our performance with the Stompers last season?

No, it doesn't

And I don't even know if saying that, I don't even know if I'm saying that in a way that props us up or brings us down

Because there's still some of our fingerprints on this roster

But I just think that every team is its own beast and it's really hard to, you know, every team finds its own way of being good

And last year and the first half we were good and this year and the first half they're good

And I don't think it's that simple to tease out what made them good

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