One-quarter of the way into the season, the Blue Jays are a bottom-eight team in home runs and on-base-plus-slugging percentage, fourth-worst in runs per game and next-to-last in OPS with runners in scoring position. Changing the leadoff hitter isn't going to fix all that, by any means, but there are reasons to do it beyond “it couldn't hurt.” Springer is off to a rough start, batting just .200 with a .563 OPS that placed him 156th among the 169 qualified hitters in the majors going into Monday's games. While no one has ever been able to figure out when a cold hitter will get hot or when a hot hitter will go cold, it's time for a new face at the top of the order.
Ernie Clement broke an 8-all tie with a bases-loaded single in the seventh inning and the Toronto Blue Jays overcame a six-run deficit to beat the Minnesota Twins 10-8 on Saturday. Danny Jansen hit a two-run home run while Bo Bichette and Davis Schneider each hit solo homers for the Blue Jays, who came in having lost six of eight. “The confidence hasn’t wavered,” Blue Jays manager John Schneider said.
A 3-for-5 day for Davis Schneider that included his fourth home run, a double, a single and a sac fly with a pair of RBIs, contributing mightily to the rally his team constructed, whilst erasing the cringe of a first-inning error that sprung the Twins into a three-run lead. Over his last 16 games, Schneider — who's been batting leadoff this weekend, with George Springer in sick bay — is hitting .348 (16-for-48) with six doubles, two dingers, seven RBIs, 10 walks and a 1.074 on-base plus slugging mark. This is the guy manager John Schneider had inexplicably elected to sit out here and there and there and there.
No | Player | P |
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40 | P | |
17 | P | |
92 | P | |
44 | P | |
93 | P | |
34 | P | |
57 | P | |
16 | P | |
6 | P | |
58 | P | |
24 | P | |
56 | P | |
33 | P | |
29 | P | |
68 | P | |
50 | P |
No | Player | P |
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9 | C | |
30 | C |
No | Player | P |
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11 | SS | |
8 | 2B | |
28 | 3B | |
27 | 1B | |
7 | 3B | |
2 | 3B |
No | Player | P |
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39 | CF | |
36 | LF | |
4 | RF | |
25 | LF |
No | Player | P |
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20 | DH |