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OT: The Toronto Blue Jays

My only question coming out of this one is, Vladdy still obviously has the ability, bat speed, and power, so how is he not hitting more bombs like that one with much more frequency? Only 14 HR after 100+ games is lunacy.
 
LeafOfFaith said:
My only question coming out of this one is, Vladdy still obviously has the ability, bat speed, and power, so how is he not hitting more bombs like that one with much more frequency? Only 14 HR after 100+ games is lunacy.
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He's been pulverizing the ball with around 1100 OPS since July 1, doubles are fantastic, and bombs will come
 
The 7-1 post all-star break run the Toronto Blue Jayswere on entering Saturday’s play, in which the club hit .310 and OPS’ed .870 with a 12.3-per cent strikeout rate straight out of the early-80’s, would have been impressive against anyone, let alone the run of all-stars, ERA champs, and Cy Young winners they encountered.
A week ago Friday, Toronto didn’t let Justin Verlander out of the second inning, tagging him for four runs on nine hits while holding the future hall-of-famer without a strikeout for only the sixth time in his 543-start career. The next night, the Blue Jays got four runs on 11 hits off perennial Cy Young candidate Logan Webb, striking out just once. The last time Webb had fewer than three strikeouts in a start was 2023, a span of 59 outings.
A night later, it was Robbie Ray surrendering season-highs in runs, walks, and homers, finishing with his lowest game score (31) in an outing since last August when he was returning from Tommy John surgery. The night after that, Carlos Rodon tied his season-low in strikeouts (one of the other times was also against the Blue Jays) while setting a season-high in walks and allowing four runs over an arduous five innings.
And finally, on Wednesday, the Blue Jays handed Max Fried his worst start in two months, bleeding him for six runs over 5.1 innings while going even in strikeouts and walks with three apiece. It was only a marginally better performance than the one they had against Fried earlier this month, when they cashed four runs in six innings with a pair of strikeouts and walks.
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