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RotoWire Fantasy Baseball Podcast

Trust The Process w/ Jeff Zimmerman

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4.6784 Ratings

🗓️ 19 February 2025

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

Jeff Zimmerman joins James Anderson to discuss some recent fantasy baseball research featured in Jeff's book, The Process, plus they look at which pitchers could win rotation spots this spring and much more! 00:00 Intro 01:50 Pitcher Injury Grades 21:40 Are Rookies A Good Buy? 26:00 Rookies Trending Up 32:45 Wait On Pitching 38:45 The $750 OC 42:05 Pitchers Competing For Rotation Spots 01:05:30 Unsettled Bullpens 01:12:20 Dalton Rushing Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Roto Wire fantasy baseball podcast. I'm your host, James Anderson, and we are brought to you by fan tracks. Go to

0:11.6

rotowire.com slash pod right now if you aren't already subscribed to our Rotoire baseball content.

0:17.2

Just got a ton of injury news going up on the site every day, job battle news going up on the site every day job battle news

0:21.5

going up on the side every day lots of great articles but on the podcast today got the great

0:26.0

jeff zimmerman with me uh jeff uh is the co-author of the process which was originally published

0:33.4

in 2019 with tanner bell um but there's a a 2025 edition that we're going to discuss here

0:39.6

with some really valuable studies that have been compiled into the appendixes. And then Jeff also

0:46.4

does the launch angle podcast and mining the news over at Fangraph. So great to jeff on the show uh jeff thanks for joining

0:55.3

man how you doing uh thanks for let me join i'm i'm stuck inside this like i don't know where you're

1:01.6

i'm you're not where this disaster is but my guy's like oh we have a high of six today

1:08.4

it's it's it's just a good day to be pod.

1:11.6

It's been cold enough that when I take my dog for a walk, I can tell his paws are cold

1:17.6

when they hit the ground.

1:19.6

So it's very cold, but we're inside today, thankfully.

1:26.6

So one of the studies that I wanted to talk about uh with you

1:30.7

jeff from that 2025 version of the process i mean the process is the the gold standard of fantasy

1:38.0

baseball books um like you will actually get better at fantasy baseball if you read and implement the stuff you read in the process.

1:46.5

So everyone should have that.

1:48.1

But the 2025 edition, you look back at the injury grades that there's kind of like a secret sauce,

1:56.5

but you come up with an injury grade for each starting pitcher.

2:00.8

Those get featured in, you know,

2:03.0

Saras's starting pitcher ranks on the athletic. And it looks to me like the grades worked

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