Blair: ‘Scuffling’ Rios typifies decline in offence
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1| FanHouse found this 5/21/2008 on www.baseballthinkfactory.org [flag] |
If you’re J.P. Ricciardi, you can’t just attribute it to the Mitchell report or anything like that, because you’re an employee of Major League Baseball and, well, he just can’t go there, you know?
But there’s a lot of bad baseball being played in the American League these days. Awful stuff. A drop in offence that Ricciardi, the Blue Jays’ general manager, says is “flat-out alarming.”
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Toronto's Offensive Problems Run Deeper Than Drug Testing
Published 5/21/2008 by Josh Alper at FanHouse
... runs per game. If it were true that good offensive baseball were reliant on the home run, then Minnesota and Oakland, with fewer homers per night than the Jays, would be lagging behind them. They aren't though, in fact each team is scoring more than a half-run per game more than Toronto. Hell, it's still just May and offense might pick up and start to resemble years past. Even if the league averages rise, though, expect Toronto to be at the bottom of the pack. (H/T BBTF) Permalink | Email this | ...
