With his team sitting five games under .500 and mired in last place in the AL East, Ross Atkins stood in front of the media Saturday morning and tried to explain his club’s yearlong run-scoring struggles.
TORONTO — The advanced numbers paint the same picture. In terms of wRC+, Atkins’ club holds a 94 mark through 43 games, well-below league average and 23rd overall in baseball.showing signs of life, Jays’ bats have gotten even worse with an 81 wRC+ since the calendar flipped from April, resulting inThe playoff odds, the run differential, the objective offensive numbers … there simply aren’t many positive signs that things are about to get exponentially better.
“Obviously, we’re not where we would like to be,” Atkins said. “We have seen some encouraging things of late that have not resulted in wins and have seen some encouraging things with our offence that we feel with time and the talent that’s on the team that we can certainly see righting the ship. However, that needs to start pretty soon.
“We’ve made changes to our process, we’ve made changes to people, some of it personnel, and that’s what we’re working on,” he added."It does take time and it hasn’t happened soon enough and it needs to start.” Just because Atkins says it doesn’t mean the ticket buying public needs to believe it, and the belief in this club has dwindled to the point where everyone is clamouring for change.From a personnel standpoint, May isn’t really trade season and it’s hard to engineer impactful deals this far out from the trade deadline, but it sounds like the Jays have at least been trolling for help.
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