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John Schneider sends message to Blue Jays’ Bo Bichette replacement who has been horrendous originally appeared on The Sporting News. Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here.
The Toronto Blue Jays made an interesting decision during the offseason when they seemingly allowed Bo Bichette to walk and attempted to replace him with multiple players.
One of the guys the Blue Jays signed with the money they had from allowing Bichette to walk was Kazuma Okamoto, a 29-year-old from Japan.
The hope was that Okamoto was going to be one of the better right-handed-hitting options in the American League, and at times throughout this season, he's proven he can be that.
He's also shown that he can leave the yard at any moment with 10 home runs already on the year, but as a whole, he's been relatively disappointing.
He's currently hitting .218 with 71 strikeouts and just 22 walks. Blue Jays fans are rightfully a bit upset about him, but skipper John Schneider had some promising words about Okamoto changing things up.
“I thought he took better swings today,” Schneider said of Okamoto, per Yahoo. “Really just missed the first-pitch curveball (on a fourth-inning fly out) and hit the double to right-center. Just trying to stay closed a little bit more and allow him to use that opposite-field power.”
With the Blue Jays playing the type of baseball they have throughout the season, they definitely need him to get going.
They've been a bit better recently, going 6-4 over their last 10 games, but they still sit at 27-29 and 8.5 games out in the American League East. Okamoto has definitely been part of the reason Toronto has struggled the way it has.
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