Smoak on the Water

(Music Pun Streak #2. Had to)

This is a very curious bad team we have on our hands here. An aging catcher who's batting under the Mendoza line currently has a 2.3 WAR, second-most on the squad. The franchise guy's been injured for most the year, but still has a 1.0 WAR. And the guy leading the team...is Justin Smoak.

Man, I knew the Blue Jays wouldn't be the same after the 2016 run, but...this is pathetic. I kinda feel bad for them, too. Curtis Granderson and Kendrys Morales have become imperative home-run producers, and Kevin Pillar's too imperfect to be the everyman. Marco Estrada and Marcus Stroman have too many bad days to be the ace, and there's no concrete closer. So it's bad...but it's just messy, too. Which isn't fun.

There are people doing a nice job on this team, and they've accumulated a ton of young stars, like Randal Grichuk, Aledmys Diaz and Teoscar Hernandez and Richard Urena, but, again, there's too much of a disconnect between its older stars, the ones running the team, and the youth, who are attempting to. The dissonance is making it hard to win games, and harder for the team to establish an identity outside of this season.

I don't know where the offseason will leave them. Will the aging stars leave? Will the youth leave? Will they completely clean house? I have no idea. But the Blue Jays, as powerful as they can be in fleeting moments, need to do something, or else they might be lapped by the Orioles next year. And 2 years after a ALCS run, I don't think they want that.

Coming Tonight:A guy with a pompous name doing good work with a...yeah, first place team.