Jesse Rubinoff

Here's my ideal lineup.

Here's my ideal pitching rotation.

And to basically never have that at your disposal must be absolutely infuriating.

But it is, I mean, a credit to the Blue Jays that they've been able to put together the lineup.

almost like in parts scraping together a lineup that has been able to more than keep them afloat so far this season.

They actually look like they're playing pretty good baseball at the moment.

So it's tough, but a lot of teams deal with it.

Most teams probably not to the level that the Blue Jays have dealt with to this season, but I will say the Blue Jays have probably done a better job than most of being able to handle it.

Second, usually.

Yeah, right?

It's almost always been a rotating...

revolving door.

Usually, whenever the Blue Jays would struggle to get production out of that spot, it would end up being Bo who would move back down there.

Bo is an incredible hitter, as we know, but he's not necessarily a

power guy.

Yeah, so it's an interesting question because it hasn't happened with like a ton of regularity over the course of his career.

And also the second part of that is that

While I've been talking in the pregame show and the postgame show about the effortless power that Okamoto has in his history in the Japanese League where he had so many home runs, we're still only in early May.

So we don't really know what Okamoto is going to give us over the course of 162.

You would prorate this out and he's a 35 home run guy just like he was in Japan, but