Ben Nicholson-Smith

And normally when you get that many strikeouts, you're not getting hit hard.

For Hoffman, he's getting hit really, really hard when it's not a strikeout.

So it's just incongruous to see that combination.

Again, we've talked about this before.

I will point out

His BABIP, batting average on balls in play, over 500.

You know, league average hovers around 300, give or take.

So it's way up there.

Now, partly, that's probably because he's not putting the pitches where he needs to.

Partly, it's fluky.

There is a flukish element to this.

Now,

don't get please, please, like, don't, you know, misinterpret this as me saying that Jeff Hoffman is, you know, this is all a product of luck.

And it's all gonna, it's all gonna turn around, because I'm not saying that.

And I don't believe that.

And I know people are tired of being pointed to his baseball savant page, because it's like, time for results, we're in June, and he has not delivered results.

And that's ultimately on him.

So it

to me i bring that up to just point out how bizarre this has been um and now it's they're still gonna have to use him and this is where it's uncomfortable and i know that probably blue jays fans don't want to hear this because he has been so bad and the results have been so bad when you're talking about a 631 era and opposition hitting for such a high average against him and it's genuinely been a

Big reason that they've given up some significant leads and lost big games and their record could be better if he had performed to his previous levels.