Throughout their playoff seasons in 2015 and 2016, the Blue Jays offence was largely built around the power approach employed by many of their best hitters. It’s been a discussion point around the lineup for several years, but when you’re penciling in bats like Jose Bautista, Josh Donaldson, Edwin Encarnacion and many more, you don’t try to make slap hitters out of them.
Of course, we know that the Blue Jays kind of “lived and died by the sword” in those playoff appearances, and in 2017 things came to a head even more when the power numbers dried up as well.