Blue Jays set one other franchise file in futility

The story of the 2019 Toronto Blue Jays season is not going to be remembered all that fondly by the statisticians and file keepers that play such a big position in baseball lore.

A 12 months that — at finest — will featured the sixth most losses the workforce has collected in a full season has been stuffed with a collection of doubtful record-setting statistics that paint a reasonably correct image of a dire on-field product.

The workforce has already plowed by way of a franchise file in variety of pitchers used and variety of beginning pitchers used whereas relying closely on rookies. On Tuesday, with a dozen video games left within the season, the Blue Jays bats mixed to set a brand new franchise mark for many strikeouts in a 12 months.

In line with Sportsnet Stats, Blue Jays hitters went down on strikes a whopping 1,388 occasions (and counting) this season, a brand new high-water mark for unproductive at-bats.

The type of recent baseball performs into this inflation, in fact, as strikeouts typically are up throughout the league. It stands to cause that the pattern would additionally seep right into a lineup stuffed with gamers brief on expertise and excessive on causes to attempt to make an affect with large swings. Whatever the elements, the numbers are what they’re, and no model of the Blue Jays franchise has had extra at-bats finish with a Ok.

Because it at the moment stands, seven gamers on the workforce have racked up triple-digit strikeout totals this season. Randal Grichuk, Teoscar Hernandez, Freddy Galvis, Rowdy Tellez, Cavan Biggio, Brandon Drury and Justin Smoak have been the most typical offenders to be despatched again to the dugout with out placing the ball in play.

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