SAN FRANCISCO – This especially miserable offensive rut the Toronto Blue Jays are in isn’t going to last forever. Eventually, they’re going to resume scoring runs at a better clip, even if just at the still-wanting-but-better-than-this levels they’d been at for most of the season.

So, to avoid thinking in prisoner-of-the-moment terms, what the Blue Jays need to figure out leading into the Aug. 3 trade deadline is, first, how much can they reasonably expect their lineup to correct under the given circumstances, and second, what can they do in the market to upgrade and better leverage the group they have.

Without a substantial turnaround soon, a third option they may be forced to consider is whether to step back and sell-off some expiring assets, an option that would have been unfathomable at the start of the year.

Yet after a 10-1 thumping from the San Francisco Giants on Monday night, they’re a season-high seven games below .500 at 42-49, unravelling after Kazuma Okamoto’s solo shot in the sixth ended a stretch of 29 innings without a run, the fifth-longest in team history. And while the........

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