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Every spend-happy MLB team thought he was worth the money. Had the Jays not paid him, these other teams would have. Tail offs from a successful season or two are fairly common in sports these days, especially if players just experienced a deep playoff or tourney run. Just look a soccer, au courant at the moment. Specifically, Liverpool and Mo Salah: a win-almost-everything 24-25 season to the doldrums for both team and its dominant player in 25-26. Now, coach gone, many players gone, and Salah likely headed to MLS, soccer exile.
 
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Toronto Passions said:
You can say that again. And again and again and again… Jeff Hoffman needs to go. He is not a clutch performer and he folds under pressure. He's almost always given a clean inning and there's no excuse for this nonsense. He is a momentum killer. The Jays finally get to 500 and he fucked it all up and they lose again today… Total momentum killjoy. I feel bad for him. I mean he seems like such a nice delicate guy… But he's not a clutch performer and we don't need that in our bullpen… The Blue Jays let Chad Green go so they can also let Jeff Hoffman go. For our franchise that is so fast to DFA people… I'm surprised he's still here. I would expect the Jays to eat the remaining contract and just let Hoffman walk.

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Philip, I agree with you about Hoffman. Then again my team, the sad, sad, sad-sack Mets, signed Devin Williams for whatever reason. Once he could do it, now he can't. It seems to me the story of baseball is two-fold: pitchers, both starters and relievers, are fragile and very few can be consistently good, which is not even great, over say, a 10-year period, like their brethren back in the day. For chrissakes, every team had high-inning guys who lasted years. Jim Maloney of the Reds, Ernie Broglio of the Cards and many other teams. Bulldogs not toy poodles. I know you follow the Dodgers and know the team's history. Who's today's Drysdale or Perranowski? Point is, a good pitcher today, is a not so good pitcher tomorrow, and every team has been through the drama of having them in spades. Not a Jays thing only. It's an MLB-wide infection.
What's also startling is that so many pitchers fail in an era of poor hitting. F*** analytics analysts who posit that hitting .300-plus is not good enough anymore. Batting .237 much better, eh? Guess Ted Williams and Stan the Man would have no place in present day baseball. I know, most argue that the game has changed. Point is, you still gotta get on base and then find a way home with the help of your teammates batting after you. Hit a homer? OK? Follow that with 3 Ks? Excusable., say the moderns. Hard to watch.
 
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I hope the Jays become sellers and get some young talent

It will not be a lot as Gausman is the only cherry but to be buyers and sell young talent when all you can hope for is bottom WC when this team is not working out

No homers, bad at RISP, bad defense this team is not a contender

Blame injuries if you want. Santander and Barger were two key offensive players injured, Vlad and Springer having very bad years. That is 70% or our offence gone, it is obvious why we are so mediocre
 
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