After getting back to .500 with a win in Baltimore over the Orioles on Friday night, the Toronto Blue Jays have played arguably their worst baseball of the 2026 season.
A disastrous blown save from Jeff Hoffman has spurred a lifeless four-game losing streak that sees the Blue Jays back down to 29-33 on the year and on the outside of the playoff picture looking in.
There is still a lot of time left to turn things around, especially in this weak AL. However, Toronto needs to figure it out sooner rather than later, and former MLBer turned analyst Caleb Joseph expressed that during their loss in Atlanta to the Braves on Wednesday night.
“That ball’s gotta be caught. That ball has to be caught by somebody. These are the inches that the Blue Jays are giving up from time to time. And this is why they’re not consistent. It’s these little things that drive this manager absolutely bonkers when you consistently give these inches up. And look, it’s not an out and it didn’t cost them a run, but it might cost you down the line. These are the type of inches, if you wanna be a good team and if you want to get to where you’re going, you have to make these type of plays. You can’t let balls drop in front of you. You gotta catch every ball like Kevin Gausman was saying. You’ve gotta get it together.
I’m sorry I’m going on a bit of a rant here, but this is an accumulation of close to 60 games where these are the types of plays that did not happen a year ago. I know you’ve got to turn the page. I know you’ve got to flush it, but at some point somebody’s gotta get in that dugout and say enough’s enough. We gotta pick it up and get it going. Tighten it up. No more inches, no more free inches. Those are free inches out there that the Blue Jays have been giving away from time to time, and it cannot happen. Baserunning plays, giving away at-bats, these small things that, if you want to be a World Series contender again, cannot happen, and they’re happening with regularity throughout this entire season,”
Safe to say all Blue Jays fans were thinking the same thing.
As Joseph mentioned, it’s been a frustrating, inconsistent season thus far for the reigning AL champions, and at some point, it’s going to get late early in Toronto.
Last year’s run was amazing and showed what this team can be when it performs to its capabilities. That said, we saw the year prior how poorly things can go when they don’t, so it’s on the Blue Jays to show which version is who they truly are.
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