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Hey there, welcome to Nick Pollock and friends.

Why I talk to people I know and who you should know. Today on the cast, a very good friend of mine inside the industry, it's Jeff Zimmerman. You might know him from Fangraphs and his book The Process. Jeff, thank you so much for being here today. Thanks for having me, Nick. It's kind of nice to talk about baseball note. We got a nice little four day break and everything yeah right

four days four days uh as the yankees got swept and the phillies overtook the padres but no we're

not going to talk about baseball specifically in this cast we're going to talk about jeff zimmerman

the person and uh i want to start at the very beginning with Jeff.

And that is, of course, the audio discussion we had right before this podcast

has refused to get up into the mic.

And I'm just going to say right now, that was not me.

That was Jeff.

And Jeff's like my back.

I'm like, I get it.

I get it, Jeff. I understand. I just,

I just want them to get the best version of you. But no, no, I want to, Jeff, tell us, tell us

where you're from and how you got started on this long journey. Well, I am, I was raised in a hoduck town, small town in Kansas, graduated there, and then I went off in the military and lived Florida, New York, Hawaii, San Diego for a bit, then got out.

Went to college, and then moved to Tucson, what was to soon

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