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See I'm hanging my hood but I'm banging my hood I'm a failure game

Good morning and welcome to episode 954 of Effectively Wild The Daily Podcast from Baseball Perspectus

presented by our supporters on patreon and playindex at baseballreference.com

I am Bellenberg of the ringer joined by Sam Miller baseball perspectives. Hello Sam.

I'm Ben. And those of you who have read our book the only rules it has to work are familiar with our two guests today

When Sam and I were running the snowmestompers and independent league team in the Pacific Association last summer

We signed a bunch of players off a spreadsheet site unseen based on their college stats and two of the best players

We signed were Santos Saldovar and Dylan Stoops. We picked them up at midseason

They came in and were great. They dominated the league and then much to our delight

They were subsequently signed by major league organizations

So as promised we are talking to both of them today now that the minor league season is over

So first I'm going to greet Santos Saldovar. He is a right-handed pitcher who was a guest on episode

888 of this podcast when he was signed by the brewers back in May

He was signed to Helena in the Pioneer League. Hey Santos. Welcome back. Hey, how you doing?

And now I'm going to greet Dylan Stoops a left-handed pitcher who as we announced on the show not long ago

Was signed by the Padres and got a little action in toward the end of the season with Lake Elsonore in the California League

That's hi-ay. Hello Dylan. Hey how's it going guys? All right

So since we had Santos on already to talk about the signing story and all of the feelings he was feeling at the time

Dylan do you want to sort of summarize your season and what you were doing before you got the call and

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