Ben Schulman

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507 appearances 4 recordings 1 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 19 Jun

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Blue Jays Talk · JTP: Tough Errors & Jays Prospect Sean Keys · 26 May 2026 podcast

It's been a couple other spots where they haven't been able either to replicate production last year or which I think is the bigger problem.

The second problem is because certain guys are down and certain guys are maybe not producing offensively.

The Blue Jays have to create lineups with this sole idea in my mind of putting as much offense out there as possible.

And again,

Because of that, they're not necessarily putting out their top defensive lineups or even really their medium defensive lineups.

They're just selling out for offense, which I totally understand.

But that leaves you in a situation where, very unlike the Blue Jays the last couple of years, they might have a couple guys on the field at once that are really a lot more known for their bat than they are for their glove.

And when they're not getting, you know, a ton of strikeouts, which they actually are striking out a lot of guys as an overall staff, but some of the pitchers that they have healthy and active right now are pitching to some weak contact pretty effectively.

You still need your defense to bail you out.

So you put all that together.

And then I thought yesterday, Kevin Barker mentioned this on Jay's talk as well.

that the Blue Jays aren't hitting that much.

So every time you make a defensive mistake, it costs you a whole game too.

All of that is compounding to this kind of negative attention on the defense that based on their play, where they are kind of middle of the pack defensively, so far this year has been somewhat warranted.

Yeah, I think going into, for the first part of the question, going into last night's game, I thought that with the exception of really one play, there was one play prior to last night where he and Okamoto kind of pulled up looking at each other and a ball dropped in down the left field line, actually in Trey Savage's last start.

So I'm sure that's not, you know, a super fond memory overall for Savage, what's gone on in left field the last two.

I thought that other than that, he had made all the plays.

There hadn't been any spectacular plays.

There hadn't been any plays where I was like, whoa, I'm not sure if the average outfielder makes that play.

But he had made all the plays, and given what he has meant for them offensively, I thought that it was pretty solid.

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