Chris Cotillo

The Blue Jays haven't hit like that.

This was a...

starting pitcher who came in with the worst qualified ERA.

He had actually gotten taken out of the Astros rotation before being put back in in Mike Burroughs.

Some of the offensive issues have been, like you said, executing with runners in scoring position for some games.

Yesterday, they just couldn't get to them at all.

This has not been a lineup that's particularly effective top to bottom, even though a couple guys are having all right seasons.

Is there like a through line that you're seeing in any of the offensive struggles and the inability to get to kind of these like more kitchen sink pitch ability guys more than anything else?

Yeah, on the one hand, you can be kind of optimistic about that, but on the other hand, you could be very pessimistic that you don't feel that they've deserved to be two games under .500.

With respect to Vlad, and I apologize, people might be Vlad conversation out, but Caleb made some interesting points with you on the broadcast last night about what he saw in the batting practice that Vlad was working on, that theory that maybe...

He had a good start to the season without the power and seeking that power, you know, maybe took him out of some of the other things that he does so well normally.

Do you have, you know, there are a lot of theories out there about Vlad right now.

Are any of them satisfying or, you know, logical enough to you to kind of crystallize into one theory of Vlad right now?

Well, it's beyond a lot of people's capabilities right now from the looks of it.

We're at half a season now.

I think tonight's game 81, and when we adjust for league average, this is the worst season.

Even worse than his rookie year where he was fun as a rookie, but obviously he's a rookie.

He was a 20-year-old kid.

Yeah, and I'm pretty with you on that.

And again, the numbers were not like he was not hitting for power early in the year, but he had like a 900 OPS over March and April.