Nah not really. People just overreact because they see their teams games and don’t see others. If I go back to reliever stats from May 15 onward I see some stats from the bullpen:
FIP: 4.29 (18th)
XFIP: 4.23 (16th)
Era: 4.75 (23rd)
LoB: 67.5% (25th) (the real culprit here)
Mrkaz is right with his stats and tbh the relief pitching and the hitting both have similar issues and both are costing Toronto games. Their overall stats are better than their situational stats. Jays bullpen does well for a few innings and then they have a bad one and lose. Or game is out of reach and bullpen comes in and throws some zeros. It’s easy to blame the bullpen when you see them give up the lead or have a bad inning.
It’s harder to say that for the offense but that .610 close and late is telling. The Jays just don’t score many runs when the opposing starter is out of the game. I can count as many losses where one more run would have won as the bullpen blowing it. The Jays record sucks in one run games and sucks in extra inning games. I looked a few days ago at other situational hitting stats and the Jays are below average in all of them. Now none of this is terribly predictive but I don’t think having a young team helps.
Also doesn’t help that Boston is the opposite and is insane late and close and this have the most comeback wins and despite having a lower run differential than the Jays are like 22 games over .500. Even if Toronto goes on a run it might not help if Boston keeps playing .750 ball. Probably means wild card, this isn’t like 2015 where we had a good differential but the AL east was down. Yankees this year are probably about as good as their 2015 variant, but that was the second best team in the division but fourth now.
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