After a one-week hiatus, RotoRob Fantasy Baseball Weekly Podcast — heard every Thursday at 9 p.m. EST on Blogtalkradio — was back in action as RotoRob was once again joined by Pattonandco’s Tim McLeod.

Among the topics we isolated and hunted down:

• Josh Johnson had his finale as the host of our Fantasy Football Podcast this week.
• Alex Rodriguez’s impending payments for upcoming milestones was discussed at the meeting between him and the Yankees.
• Why do teams continue to offer ridiculous amounts of cash to aging players?
• Tim and I discuss the latest arbitration news.
• The players and owners are now tied at 3-3 with 12 cases still pending.
• Do the Reds really think they can win by offering Aroldis Chapman less money than he made last year?
• We discuss the Mariner outfield situation, and it’s not very pretty.
• The Marlins, who apparently are headed in the right direction now, will be rewarded with the 2017 All-Star Game.
• We wonder why they don’t rotate the All-Star Game from an AL city to an NL city every year.

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