Blue Jays looking to get rid of defense first mentality
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The Toronto Blue Jays have a major off season coming up in which they need to switch their approach and focus on offense which is the complete opposite of what they have been doing in recent years.
Just a couple years ago, the Blue Jays decided to move on from Loudres Gurriel Jr, Brandon Belt and Teo Hernandez to bring in defensive minded players such as Kevin Kiermaier and Daulton Varsho.
If the Blue Jays want to win, they need to leave this attitude in the past as they clearly have a decent defensive team especially if they can add a couple quality pitchers which is why the main focus should now be offense.
In doing so, the Jays ultimately moved away from power-producing hitters such as Lourdes Gurriel Jr., Teoscar Hernández and Brandon Belt in favour of more defensively-minded pieces such as Kevin Kiermaier, Daulton Varsho and more recently Isiah Kiner-Falefa. So what result has that approach brought to the club? Two straight seasons with a declining winning record along with a huge struggle to score runs in the process. This season, the Jays actually ranked near the bottom third of the league across many offensive categories. In addition, with their inability to generate runs, they ranked second-last only to the lowly Chicago White Sox in come-from-behind wins with only 25 all season. So basically if they ever fell behind in a game, it was a tall task for them to pull off a win in the end. -Eng
The ways of focusing mainly of defense clearly have not worked so it is time to switch it up and focus on offense. Many times throughout the season, fans saw the Blue Jays lose games due to lack offense when their pitchers were on fire.
Source: Jays Jorunal
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