The plan keeps coming back with you.

And the plan always not this insane.

But the plan won't accomplish anything.

If it's not me I'll run back down.

Good morning and welcome to episode 659 of Effectively Wild,

the daily podcast from baseball perspective presented by the play index at

baseballreference.com. I am Ben Lindbergh of Grantland.

Joined as always by Sam Miller of baseball perspective.

Hello Sam.

And today we are joined by the co-authors of a new book.

It's called In Pursuit of Penets.

They are Mark Armor and Daniel Levit.

They also wrote Paths to Glory, which some of you have read.

I hope it came out in 2003, right?

The same time as Moneyball basically.

And it's a history book, but it's also very statistically inclined.

You will find tables of wins above replacement player in a book that was out before

those things were nearly as mainstream as they were today.

There is one copy of that book in stock on Amazon right now.

It can be yours.

But we are going to talk mostly about the new book in Pursuit of Penets,

which is along the same lines, both books that are very concerned with

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