A few weeks ago, the Toronto Blue Jays and the New York Yankees faced off. There have been many storylines over the course of the series.
All of this, it will be remembered, stemmed from Captain Aaron Judge witnessing members of his organization giving him signals prior to a home run.
At Sportsnet, doubts have been raised as to what the Judge did. But at the Jays, it was the same feeling that flowed from it.
John Schneider had even warned the coaches on the cushions to stay in their place.
Since then, things have been bad in Toronto. The club can’t seem to stick any wins and they’re behind everyone in the competitive American League East Division.
In my opinion, it’s mainly because the guys are distracted. In particular, we saw Kevin Gausman, after the series, criticize the Yankees and Domingo German, who used sticky products on the mound of his people.
And there, weeks later, it’s Chris Bassitt who adds to it.
The Blue Jays starting pitcher, called to comment on the situation, said his people talked about what had happened and he gave his point of view.
The pitcher wonders if it should be legal for coaches on base to use this technique to share signals.
He also confirms that Aaron Judge lied by saying that he was looking at his taste to calm his guys down, but he did it just to hide that the Toronto pitchers were showing their pitches.
But to me, that’s not the important thing.
The important thing is that the club are not able to get back to winning ways, but the guys are still making history.
Why are veterans like Gausman and Bassitt still commenting on history? Why didn’t John Schneider tell them to move on?
Is there a lack of leadership within the team? Because it looks like that, even if the club tried to change the situation this winter.
Let’s remember that with the departures of Teoscar Hernandez and Lourdes Gurriel Jr. in favor of guys like Kevin Kiermaier, Brandon Belt and Bassitt, precisely, that had to have the effect of making the club a bit more serious.
It was the end of the era of the circuit jacket, after all...
But it would seem that the positive leaders are perhaps a little too quiet and do not have enough ascendancy within the club.
The more time passes, the faster it will have to be resolved.
