George Springer

TORONTO - The Toronto Blue Jays are struggling at the plate. That's no secret. They entered play Thursday ranked 29th in the majors in runs scored and rank near the bottom of the majors in slugging, home runs, and an assortment of other categories.Part of the issue is obvious. Core lineup fixtures like George Springer, Bo Bichette, and Vladimir Guerrero Jr. are failing to meet expectations to varying degrees, and the club purposefully became more defensive-minded in recent seasons within its position-player group.Moreover, despite courting Shohei Ohtani, no star-level external additions were made in the offseason. Any offensive improvement this season was going to have to come internally, from a team that fell from third in runs scored in 2021, to fourth in 2022, to 14th last year.But that internal improvement has yet to happen on a large scale, and this trend must change if the Blue Jays are to turn things around in the competitive A.L. East.Can that happen?Looking further under the hood, there are more troubling indicators. In the new bat-speed metrics released to the public by MLB this week, the Blue Jays rank last in the majors in average bat speed, one spot below the lowly Chicago White Sox. That matters because bat speed is a critical performance driver. It's also a skill that is difficult to change.!function(){"use strict";window.addEventListener("message",(function(a){if(void 0!==a.data["datawrapper-height"]){var e=document.querySelectorAll("iframe");for(var t in a.data["datawrapper-height"])for(var r=0;r

Springer (illness) will start in right field and bat leadoff in Wednesday's game in Baltimore.

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Springer (illness) is not in the lineup for Tuesday's game at Baltimore.

Manager John Schneider said Monday that Springer is out of the lineup for the Blue Jays' series opener in Baltimore because he's still feeling sick, Shi Davidi of Sportsnet.ca reports.