chw42

$/WAR shouldn't really scale linearly. There are way more guys who can provide 1-2 WAR like Leury can than there are guys like Grandal who can give you 4-5 WAR when they're healthy. There's a reason Leury's market is under $5 million while 3-4 teams were more than happy to pay Grandal $16+ million a year for 3-4 years. BTW, Grandal put up 2.6 WAR while playing 68 games. He was also playing on one knee for like the first 2 months. He really isn't the guy you should be using in this example. If you wanna talk about not living up to their contract, look no further than Keuchel.

What's funny is I remember him hitting a game tying homer off them in Cleveland earlier this year.

That happened against Parker too. That guy throws 90 and only throws fastball/splitter. You gotta be really bottling it to not hit a single routine fly ball off him in 3 tries. That was the middle of the Royals order too.

Thanks a lot Royals. I bet they won't do that against us this weekend.

Royals commit a NOBLETIGER

You might have jinxed it

We're now 0.5 a game back of the 2 seed.

We have finally hit 22 games above .500. Our highest mark since September 2008. We had 3 chances to hit it in July and August and had lost every time before tonight.

Sheets and Leury leading the way

Zeke Bonura makes another appearance in a Kamka tweet

Alford kind of looks like Josh Donaldson with his stance and leg kick.

He had some really bad ABs with runners on base towards the end of his stint. Was way too anxious and swung at everything. Good to see he didn't have that problem in the 5th today.

Luis killing the ball today.

And he barely played.

That's the kind of play Eloy breaks both of his legs on.

Damn we really missed Gavin's power.

Gavin murders fastballs

It's almost like that should be when he pitches most.

Liam probably gets the 9th too unless we score a couple.

Gotta be really careful to Yoshi.

Straight gas

I get the feeling that the Cubs pitchers we got hate La Russa.

Tepera is pissed

Ugh that's bullshit, he should have been out.

He totally went.