Lol. That doesn't make any sense. If it was easy to hit a ball wherever a batter want to hit it then it would obviously be a losing strategy for the defence to play the shift. No competitive baseball team is in the business of losing games. If batters like you mentioned were so good at placing a hit wherever they wanted then the defence obviously wouldn't play the shift against them.
I don’t disagree with the principle and I actually think the Jays need to be better at this kind of thing. But executing it isn’t as easy as you’re implying it is.
In fact it's not easy at all. Otherwise it would be demonstrated. This is professional baseball we're talking about. Do you really think players are trying to not do what is going to help the team win? or is baseball not like shooting fish in a barrel?
It shouldn’t even come to this. You can’t be held to 1 run by Drew Hutchison if you’re this offense. It’s frankly embarrassing.
Sure, but the pen has to pick up some of the slack when the offense is struggling. The starters have been outstanding, the offense and pen have been garbage.
If your conceptual idea of what the best way to play baseball is was true, then that's what you would see. But you don't.
When your starting pitching is literally the only thing working, you’re not going to win enough games. Especially when you have a manager who likes to take his starters out early.
