Holes in the wall

I am guessing that most of you Jays fans are wondering when the glue is going to settle and harden on an every day line up.

Wish there was a simple answer to that, but as you know, after Opening Day things started getting wonky/  That day we lost Rajah, and after that it was one player after another. Hill, Jose, Snider, different closers, Cecil, Purcey, McCoy, Woodward, you name it, it happened.

We still do not have a complete line up, with Snider in Vegas, and Lind licking wounds, it has been a patchwork since we started.

Now other teams have suffered losses, the Rangers are missing Nellie Cruz again, and Hamilton still out. The Red Sox are healthy, and just now emerging from that hideous 0-for that began the year, like Tampa's 2-8 start as well. The Rays at least can boast they got out of their funk, missing Evan Longoria until last Wednesday, so almost a full month, but there they stand in 2nd place having rattled off a long road win streak.

So our home towners will not get much sympathy from these parts, but 2 ten game road swings in April is brutal.  Now home they have been no hit, and beaten by Brad Penny, who is either very bad, or just plain average. So the bats are still in cold storage in my estimation.

Pink ones did not help the cause on Mother's Day, other than Jose's early blast, they made Penny look too good taking pitches when they shouldn't and swinging at his average fastball and missing.

We have some holes in this line up that need plugging, since it appears Juan Rivera is best we can do as clean up hitter with Lind out, and holes exist at the bottom end of the line up after Arencibia, when he is swinging well, which has been rare.

I had not thought offense would be their problem, but perhaps it is, with Hill injured again to start the year, and Travis Snider still not able to get over the Mendoza Line.  If it isn't Bautista, it was Lind, and maybe Patterson, but we have too many soft spots presently, and it is putting pressure on the pitchers to be perfect, which they cannot possible be.

I will be in attendance this evening, maybe I will be the straw that stirs their drink, I hope it's something because Max Scherzer has a killer fastball, and a great change up , which is an out pitch.

Holes in the wall, and our boat is leaking, time to get these plugged and get going, or the season can sink pretty fast.