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This annus horribilis for your 海角社区官网Blue Jays, according to the 35-year-old right-hander, is entirely on the players.

“It’s been the worst year of my career,” Bassitt said before Saturday’s 7-2 win over the St. Louis Cardinals at the Rogers Centre, in which Jos茅 Berr铆os picked up his career-high 16th win with seven innings of two-hitter and Davis Schneider homered for the first time since June 22, part of a three-hit day. put the icing on the cake by singling home a run in the seventh for his 500th career RBI. At 25 years and 182 days old, he’s the youngest聽 Jay聽 聽to reach the milestone (by more than two years: Lloyd Moseby was 27 and 219 days when he did it). Among players who started their careers in Toronto, only Carlos Delgado (714 games) did it in fewer games than Vladdy’s 806.

Bassitt is the Jays’ nominee for the Roberto Clemente Award, presented annually to the player who聽best exemplifies the game, sportsmanship and community involvement.

Since the right-hander came to 海角社区官网as a free agent before last season, Bassitt’s Pitch In has contributed $310,000 ($10,000 for every game he starts that the Jays win) to the JaysCare Foundation.

When the discussion聽鈥� which can be heard on the next episode of 鈥淒eep Left Field,鈥� the Star’s baseball podcast聽鈥斅爐urned to the last-place Jays and a lack of faith among the fan base in the聽 current front office, Bassitt redirected the focus inward.

“I think a lot of people are in the same boat as me,” said the 10-year veteran, whose 4.20 ERA is his highest in any season in which he’s made more than five starts. “They have had bad years, comparatively, to what they should be. That’s not the front office’s fault. We, as players, have got to be a lot better and I think a lot of us know that.”

Bassitt believes that in a city such as New York, where he pitched in 2022 and took the loss in the deciding Game 3 of the first round of the playoffs (a game in which he allowed three runs and his Mets got shut out), there would be a lot less focus on the failings of the front office.

”(Fans would) be yelling at players a lot more than, say, yelling at (general manager Ross Atkins),” said Bassitt. “I don’t blame Ross. I sure as heck don’t blame (president Mark Shapiro) or Schneids (manager John Schneider). Player accountability is massive, and I think we have that here. It’s just for whatever reason (Jays) fans don’t want to yell at players; they want to yell at Ross. I don’t know why.”

Outfielder George Springer聽鈥� who went 0-for-5 Saturday, dropping his OPS to a career-low .678聽鈥� agrees.

“At the end of the day, they’re not playing the game,”聽 Springer said of the executives. “It’s my job to get a hit with a guy on second base, not Ross’ ... I don’t think there’s anybody as frustrated as the guys in this locker room. I think we all expected to be better. We owe that to the fans.”

The Jays bullpen, through injury and underperformance, has been front and centre in a lot of this year’s most frustrating losses. Friday night, G茅nesis Cabrera coughed up a game-tying home run in the eighth inning for their sixth blown save of September and 21st of the season.

Erik Swanson, who pitched a perfect 11th inning to pick up the win in that game, has only one of those blown saves. But the right-hander has given up more hits, walks and home runs per inning this season than he ever has, with fewer strikeouts. Those struggles got him sent to Triple-A for a month and a half.

“There are 鈥斅燼nd I feel I can say this because myself included 鈥斅爂uys in here this year who underperformed and didn’t meet expectations,” said the 31-year-old reliever.聽“I’ve greatly underperformed and, frankly, pitched extremely sh—-y the first half of the season. I’m not going to sugar-coat my season, it’s been a huge letdown on my part.”

Swanson will go into the winter with something to prove and said “I can almost guarantee you that every other guy in here who thinks he underperformed this year is going to go into the off-season with the exact same mindset ... there’s a time to look yourself in the mirror and that’s coming here pretty quickly.”

Bassitt made an exception for Berr铆os, and Springer made an exception for Guerrero. Aside from those two, Springer said of the Jays clubhouse: “If you don’t think that you didn’t perform this year, then I don’t know what to tell you.”