Here we go again.

The Blue Jays can’t score runs. It seems like the theme of an anemic Jays’ offence has been at the forefront of discussion around the team for the past several years. Somehow, the team that led all of MLB in home runs just four seasons ago with seven different players reaching the 20-homer mark has now become a singles hitting team.

The Jays are ranked 26th out of 30 teams in runs scored per game, 29th in home runs, 14th in batting average and on-base percentage, 25th in slugging percentage and 22nd in OPS. They are ranked 17th in stolen bases.

At the heart of the Jays’ offensive issues is the lack of power. It is difficult to put a crooked number on the scoreboard when a team doesn’t hit the ball out of the ballpark. Not hitting for power means they have to string hits together to score multiple runs in an inning. It may take four or five singles in an inning to score two runs. It is tough to have that many hitters come up with hits in the same inning. The Jays are hitting only .242 as a team, which doesn’t scream lumping five hits together very often.

The power needs to kick in. First, the fact that light-hitting second baseman Andres Gimenez leads the team with three homers is absurd. Anthony Santander (two) and Vladimir Guerrero Jr. (one) need to start hitting the ball over the wall. They are being paid to be run producers and are expected to hit........

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