After a brief upsurge with four straight wins, the Blue Jays stumbled again in New York over the weekend, dropping two games and scoring only two runs total before the series finale was rained out. This time a year ago, the Blue Jays were 24-19 and a respectable third place in the AL East. The collapse began when they lost three starting pitchers, Kyle Drabek, Drew Hutchison and Brandon Morrow to injuries in a span of five days in early June. Throw in the struggles of Ricky Romero and the Blue Jays knew early enough that they had no chance at making the postseason. At the All-Star break, their pitching was ranked 26th in the Majors with a 4.45 ERA, four complete games and six shutouts to go with 16 saves. That was after 86 games. Right now, they have played 43 games and only Houston has a worse ERA at 5.49 to the Blue Jays 4.81. On top of that the Blue Jays are giving up nearly a run per game more than the team holding down the second Wild Card spot, Detroit which clocks in with a 3.83 earned run average. Surprisingly the offensive drop-off this season has been even greater. At the All-Star break last season, the Jays had scored 430 runs, third most in the A.L. behind Texas (443) and Boston (432). They had 127 homers and were hitting .254 through 86 games. Now unless they really take off over the next 43 games, they wont come close to those numbers. At this point John Gibbons crew has scored 177 runs, has hit 54 homers and is batting .243. I know the injury bug has bitten again, but on paper at the very least, even without Jose Reyes, this years line-up should be acheiving more than last years, dont you think? 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