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The Sleeper and the Bust Episode: 1462 – Talking The Process ft. Jeff Zimmerman

RotoGraphs Fantasy Baseball

RotoGraphs Fantasy Baseball

Sports, Baseball, Fantasy Sports

4.71.4K Ratings

🗓️ 11 January 2026

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Justin Mason and Jason Collette are joined by Jeff Zimmerman of FanGraphs to discuss recent MLB moves and his book The Process!

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0:00.0

Welcome to episode 1462 of The Sleeper in the Bus.

0:22.5

I am Justin Mason.

0:24.2

Joined, as always on Sundays by Jason Collette.

0:27.3

How you doing, my friend?

0:28.5

Hey, I'm doing all right.

0:29.4

I got lost this weekend trying to find Austin Wells injured finger.

0:33.9

But I think I found it.

0:35.6

Yeah, yeah, we did find it.

0:37.1

Yeah.

0:38.1

So Paul's out text message this morning.

0:40.6

He was all like, no, no, no.

0:42.4

It was in Mining the News and he had screenshots.

0:46.9

And I completely missed the whole finger issue that he had last year.

0:52.6

So he was in July.

0:57.2

Yeah. Yeah. I mean, how am i supposed to remember i would have remembered had i done a better job of reading the mining the news and you know what

1:03.1

that is a great segue to our fantastic guess that jess zimmerman of fangrass who does the mining

1:10.0

news and has also written the book,

1:12.8

The Process, which is a must have every draft season is joining us. Jeff, welcome to the show.

1:19.1

Thanks for having me, guys. Yeah, that Austin Willis news was just like, I had, I mean,

1:24.9

I was been mining the news and I didn't even really catch it. And then I came back there's literally like two tweets on it and that's like it and I'm like I think everyone should kind of know this this is what that's kind of the ones where it's like sometimes the money in the news I'm probably like 80% of the people have had this I you know that one but this one's like I don's like, I don't think anyone. And I just remember during the season, it was L.A. de la Cruz, like, for the people, a lot of the people are like, yeah, he's just having hamstring problems. I'm like, this isn't reported anywhere. And it was like, I go through like rotawire, like, that's usually my go-to-do. Like, where'd I miss it here and it's like if it's not there then it's like oh no one's got this and you

2:03.8

kind of get the timeline going back so yeah sometimes the mining the news is like I kind of need some fillers or it's like yeah in case you missed it but other times you do find some nice stuff digging around and that was the thing is like paul went to rotWire while we're on the podcast talking about this.

2:19.5

He's like, it's not on RotoWire.

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