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Originally Posted by bluejays
I think I’ve explained my position at this point. I’m entirely skeptical of management this year and while I want the Jays to do well, I don’t want management to be exempt from the underperformance of the team throughout the year. There’s something to be said about a loveable team who puts in effort and makes good decisions. This year save the past week they’ve made bad decisions all year. Say they somehow win it all, imo, they should still examine what went wrong for most of the season. I don’t see the problem with not fully buying into the team given what’s gone on this year.
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I generally think people overthink it a bit too.
Only a couple things have hurt them this year:
1) Power bats haven't provided the expected power and Slugging with runners in scoring position has been abysmal.
2) Some weird decisions from Schneider
3) Manoah
Jays bats are actually 9th in the MLB in batting average, and 8th in OBP, they've been able to get on base. Down a bit year over year but not that bad (AVG: .264 VS .256 ; OBP: .329 VS .329)
They are just probably going to be down about 10-15 HRs (200 last year - 7th vs 180 this year - 16th), which actually isn't as jarring of a drop as I thought it'd be, and the slugging is down a bit (SLG: .431 vs .416)
But the biggest difference is the slugging has really dropped off with runners in scoring position:
AVG / OBP / SLG
Last year: .258 / .339 / .433
This year: .260 / .341 / .390
Don't think it's something that requires a deep critical intervention - they just have really struggled to get multibase hits with runners in scoring position, which means they have struggled to get runs in bunches and have really had to grind to get runs this year.
Schneider has made some weird and questionable decisions at times, but honestly when you look around the MLB you see almost every team with the same complaints about their managers.
I do think there is something the org has to look at with their starting pitchers at the major league level...a bit of a history now of younger guys really struggling when given the ACE role in Toronto (Romero, Sanchez, Stroman, Hutchinson, Manoah). Opening day starter curse.