The Blue Jays make a ton of contact. They put the ball in play. It’s what they do. No team had a lower strikeout rate this season. No team has a lower strikeout rate this postseason. They scored the fourth-most runs in the regular season, and so far have the most in the postseason. It's a good offense.

Of course, they made a ton of contact last year, too, striking out just barely more than this year’s club and essentially tying for fifth-lowest strikeout rate in the Majors. But all that contact led nowhere, as they ended up outscoring only seven non-contending clubs.

The emphasis on contact is valuable if somewhat overstated, because it's easy to skip past how they did also just mash nine homers in four Division Series games against the Yankees while slugging .601, which is merely the

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