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Originally Posted by JayP
You keep saying the Jays hitters are "in decline" when all of them are under 34 with the exception of Stairs. Please explain to me how Rios, Wells, Hill, and Overbay are all in decline. Rolen is only 33 too and shouldn't be seeing massive dips off his OPS just yet. Your decline argument might have some weight if there were small dips in OPS, but most of the team is .075+ points below their career average.
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Decline may not be the best term for it, but just because they are not over 34 does not mean their skills cannot be trailing off. As mentioned before Mench, Wilkerson, Stairs, Stewart were not exactly world beaters prior to the season. The others haven't been tearing the leather off the ball either other than in a career year for each. Rolen has had shoulder problems and was let go by St. Louis for more than just his attitude.
Overbay is in decline because his stats have been poor for two years in a row. Take out his career year his first year in TO and he is on track with what he has done over his career.
Rolen as mentioned is in decline because of health issues he has had in the past.
Hill injury problems this year can't predict that, but I wonder if people expect the player he has been or the potential superstar that TO media like to trump him up as.
Wells seems to be better than last season and not far off from a few other seasons as well. He has shown over his career that he is not a consistent hitter so his poor season can't be all that surprising.
In my view Rios has not had a season that is good enough to expect him not to run into trouble in his career. He is a good hitter but certainly not good enough to not expect him to have troubles either.
My main remains that the Blue Jays hitting trouble is not that surprising to many people and was predicted by people in the media. Outside of TO I am not sure there are a lot of people who are surprised with the record that the Jays have.
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Here's a quote from Mike Wilner (radio broadcast) talking about Ernie Whitt's arrogance:
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It doesn't look good on Whitt, but still don't see why Ricciardi wouldn't just take the high road? I don't get what he gets by being the bigger ###### bag in the situation.
Also, I would think consider how much of a homer and Jays shill Wilner is that any story form him has to be taken with an enormous grain of salt.
Anyways congrats on the big win tonight perhaps some of those superstar hitters will eventually get over the 6 HR mark!