6) Toronto is 24th in team OBP, so we do not get many runners on. But despite that, we are tied for 6th in grounding into double plays. So we don't get many men on, but still manage to hit into a bunch of double plays.
Add it up, we are a team that hits a bunch of singles, plays station to station baseball, hits into many double plays, and cannot hit with runners in scoring position.
All were on display in todays embarrassing loss to New York.
4) The Blue Jays with RISP are the worst team in the major leagues by OPS (.661).
With the bases loaded, they are even worse. First, we are 29th in the league with only 44 ABs with the bases loaded (San Diego is the only team with fewer - 42), but we are also 9-44 (.205).
2) We've really overtaxed the bullpen with the inability of starters to go beyond the fifth inning (and in some cases, to reach it), as well as the lack of key hitting, which results in too many close games.
3) Following up to 4, the Blue Jays against left hand pitching this year are 28 of 30 in OPS (.650), ahead of only San Diego and Seattle. Our batting average (.217) is also 28th, ahead of Detroit and Seattle.
We really, REALLY need some right hand bats (Okamoto has 15 home runs from the right side; after that, there's Ernie Clement with 7 and Springer with 6.)
Vladdy's complete power outage is remarkable.
Blue Jays again lose on ninth inning home runs, yesterday 3-1 and today 8-3 (two long balls in the ninth allowed today).
Lose the series, now 10 games behind NY and Tampa.
A lot to unpack as we head to Boston....
1) The Jays went 3-23 with RISP the last two days. Two of the three were infield singles. One of those could just as easily been scored an E-5 on a throw into the dugout.