The Jays organizational philosophy towards situational hitting is so flawed.
The Jays have to be one of the worst situational hitting teams in the league. Season after season, it's pretty routine to see runners stranded on 3rd after being on with 0 or 1 out. All our hitters do in these situations is start hacking at garbage in an attempt to just make enough contact to drive in the runners. The problem is they just put themselves in 0-2 situations and the pitcher just feeds them junk outside the zone until the strikeout.
The problem is that the Jays put themselves in situational hitting positions instead of being aggressive on the basepaths. They never send runners home unless it's almost a certainty that they score. They need to realize the fact that you can do this if you can drive in runs via situational hitting, but the Jays clearly aren't able to do this.
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