In accordance with a outstanding Canadian sports activities author, Toronto Blue Jays first baseman Vladimir Guerrero Jr. is “embarrassed” by his poor season.
Guerrero is enduring the worst season of his eight-year MLB profession to this point.
The six-time MLB All-Star is batting simply .262 for the Blue Jays with an OPS of .694 and an OPS+ of 92, indicating his bat has been 8% beneath league common. He has solely hit 9 residence runs this season, together with simply 1 residence run at Rogers Centre.
Contemplating Guerrero makes $40.2 million this season, the primary yr of a 14-year, $500 million contract, it has been downright stunning, to say the least, to see how poorly he has carried out on the plate this yr for Toronto, which is more likely to miss the postseason after making all of it the way in which to the World Sequence final yr, in what can solely be described as an enormous fall from grace.
Vladimir Guerrero Jr. ‘Embarrassed’ by Poor Efficiency
In accordance with Steve Simmons of the Toronto Solar, Guerrero has advised these near him that he’s “embarrassed” by his play this season.
“Those that know Guerrero finest say he’s terribly embarrassed by his lack of manufacturing and he has grown bored with all of the conferences, the teaching, the every day work, the noise that has not resulted in something resembling success throughout this wayward season,” Simmons wrote.
Simmons additionally offered one other attention-grabbing be aware, declaring that within the occasion of an MLB lockout — which appears doubtless at this level — Guerrero will be unable to work with the Blue Jays coaches after December 1 to assist get his swing again on observe this offseason.
“What complicates the low season for Guerrero and the Jays is the opportunity of a lockout on Dec. 1. If that occurs, and the Jays have plans to work with Guerrero to get his swing again, there may be no contact between the participant and the workforce after that date,” Simmons wrote.
Blue Jays More likely to Miss Playoffs
With simply six video games left this season, the Blue Jays have a 77-79 file, and making the postseason goes to be subsequent to not possible, because the workforce is at the moment 3 GB of the Chicago White Sox within the hunt for the third and closing American League Wild Card spot.
That’s truly 4 GB, although, as a result of the White Sox maintain the tiebreaker over Toronto, so the chances of the Blue Jays making it to the postseason bracket are extraordinarily slim proper now.
The one hope Toronto has is that they win their final six video games of the season to get to 83-79 and hope that Chicago goes 2-4 of their final six video games to complete at 82-80.
Or, the Cleveland Guardians can go 2-4 over their closing six video games to additionally end at 83-79, as Toronto at the very least has the tiebreaker over Cleveland.
With that in thoughts, math is just not on the Blue Jays’ facet proper now, as time is working out this season and there merely aren’t sufficient video games left for Toronto to get into the postseason bracket.
And pretty or unfairly, since it’s a workforce sport, Guerrero’s dangerous season with the bat is a giant purpose why the workforce isn’t going anyplace this yr.
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