RotoRob Fantasy Baseball Weekly Podcast — heard every Thursday at 9 p.m. EST on Blogtalkradio — was back in action as RotoRob was again joined by Tim McLeod of Pattonandco.com. The good news was we enjoyed a technical glitch-free show for once, so it was nothing but pure Fantasy baseball talk without the griping about BTR!

Among the topics we passed judgment on:

• Carlos Carrasco was pulled from his last start because of stiffness, but it’s not a issue of concern.
• Tim will soon be asking for weather forecasts from us.
• A word from our sponsor, SideLeague.
• Since 2012, Giancarlo Stanton — by himself — has as many or more 450-foot or longer dingers than three teams have hit in total.
• We were impressed by Masahiro Tanaka shutting down a powerful Detroit lineup.
• What’s wrong with Julio Teheran?
• Vanderbilt players will figure prominently in the first round of the 2015 MLB Draft.
• We try to calculate how hard it would be to match Casey Stengel’s feat of winning 3,000 games as a manager.
• Will we see Blake Swihart at some point in the second half?

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After a week off, RotoRob Fantasy Baseball Weekly Podcast — heard every Thursday at 9 p.m. EST on Blogtalkradio — was back in action as RotoRob was joined by Tim McLeod of Pattonandco.com. BTR was acting particularly bitchy Thursday — kicking us both off multiple times. So please excuse the dead air, but — not to be denied — we return shortly after each absence. more