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He's a control pitcher without any control. The only thing he does well right now is field his position.

Keuchel pitching worse than Arrieta against the Astros tonight. It's so sad.

Good lord Keuchel sucks. You can see why he nibbles until it's 3-2, cause when he has to throw it in the zone it's batting practice.

Guess he's gonna platoon with Espinal at 3B.

Seby is ok at framing, but looks like he has a hole in his catcher's mitt. Collins is the main reason we get screwed by umpires so much because he makes borderline pitches look like sure balls most of the time. Seby is basically a replacement level catcher and Collins is probably the worst catcher in baseball given how bad his framing is.

The broadcast was so bad. I thought I was watching a game on a CRT in 1998.

Reminds me of when were 18-2 against KC and Detroit last year. We're only 17-12 so far this year and 3-7 in our last 10 against them. We really need to turn that around and it needs to start tonight by finally scoring some runs off Carlos Hernandez. Cause we're gonna need it with Keuchel pitching.

I like how we have to keep defending Grandal even when we just went through a month of some of the worst catching performances we've had in recent history without him and the guy has an OPS over .900 and is hitting .529 with 4 homers since coming back last week.

The Reds gave $64 million to Moustakas over 4 years because they couldn't land Grandal. The Brewers wanted Grandal back, just not at the number we paid him. I'm sure they would have wanted him back at around 4 years and $60 million. 2 other teams were more than willing to pay him more than $60 million to play for them.

$/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.