American League East · 2018
Toronto Blue Jays 2018
- Team WAR
- 26.2 19.1 bat / 7.1 pitch
- Win %
- .451 pyth .427
- Run diff
- -123 4.38 / 5.14 per g
- wRC+
- 105
- ERA
- 4.75 FIP 4.52
- Home runs
- 218
The Toronto Blue Jays went 73-89 in 2018, a .451 winning percentage — 22nd of 30 record in baseball. They scored 709 runs and allowed 832, a run differential of -123. The offence ranked 17th of 30 in MLB for runs scored, while their 4.75 staff ERA was 25th of 30. Their 105 team wRC+ was 5% above league average — 9th of 30 in MLB. Justin Smoak led the position players at 2.4 WAR, and J.A. Happ the rotation at a 3.65 ERA.
Where the offence comes from
Roster contribution by share of the team total.
Batting
35 players, ranked by dbWAR.
| Justin Smoak | 1B | 143 | 594 | 122 | 25 | 77 | 0 | .242 | .350 | .457 | .353 | 126 | 2.4 |
| Aledmys Díaz | SS | 127 | 452 | 111 | 18 | 55 | 3 | .263 | .303 | .453 | .324 | 105 | 2.1 |
| Randal Grichuk | RF | 117 | 462 | 104 | 25 | 61 | 3 | .245 | .301 | .502 | .344 | 119 | 2.0 |
| Curtis Granderson | RF | 121 | 403 | 83 | 13 | 38 | 2 | .242 | .351 | .431 | .346 | 121 | 1.6 |
| Kevin Pillar | CF | 140 | 542 | 129 | 15 | 59 | 14 | .252 | .282 | .426 | .305 | 92 | 1.6 |
| Teoscar Hernández | LF | 134 | 523 | 114 | 22 | 57 | 5 | .239 | .302 | .468 | .333 | 112 | 1.3 |
| Josh Donaldson | 3B | 52 | 219 | 46 | 8 | 23 | 2 | .246 | .352 | .449 | .349 | 123 | 1.3 |
| Lourdes Gurriel Jr. | SS | 64 | 263 | 70 | 11 | 35 | 1 | .281 | .309 | .446 | .324 | 105 | 1.2 |
| Russell Martin | C | 89 | 352 | 56 | 10 | 25 | 0 | .194 | .338 | .325 | .308 | 94 | 1.0 |
| Luke Maile | C | 62 | 231 | 50 | 3 | 27 | 2 | .248 | .333 | .366 | .314 | 98 | 1.0 |
| Danny Jansen | C | 30 | 95 | 20 | 3 | 8 | 0 | .247 | .347 | .432 | .344 | 119 | 0.6 |
| Billy McKinney | LF | 35 | 132 | 30 | 6 | 13 | 1 | .252 | .318 | .462 | .338 | 115 | 0.6 |
| Rowdy Tellez | 1B | 22 | 73 | 22 | 4 | 14 | 0 | .314 | .329 | .614 | .397 | 156 | 0.6 |
| Devon Travis | 2B | 101 | 378 | 83 | 11 | 44 | 3 | .232 | .275 | .381 | .286 | 79 | 0.6 |
| Kendrys Morales | DH | 130 | 471 | 103 | 21 | 57 | 2 | .249 | .331 | .438 | .332 | 111 | 0.5 |
| Dwight Smith Jr. | LF | 30 | 75 | 17 | 2 | 8 | 0 | .262 | .347 | .477 | .358 | 129 | 0.4 |
| Reese McGuire | C | 13 | 33 | 9 | 2 | 4 | 1 | .290 | .333 | .581 | .389 | 151 | 0.4 |
| Richard Urena | SS | 35 | 108 | 29 | 1 | 6 | 2 | .293 | .340 | .364 | .313 | 98 | 0.3 |
| J.A. Happ | P | 2 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .333 | .429 | .333 | .352 | 125 | 0.1 |
| Sam Gaviglio | P | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .333 | .333 | .667 | .426 | 177 | 0.1 |
| Jon Berti | 2B | 4 | 15 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 1 | .267 | .267 | .467 | .317 | 100 | 0.1 |
| Deck McGuire | P | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .333 | .333 | .333 | .293 | 84 | 0.0 |
| Marcus Stroman | P | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .333 | .333 | .333 | .293 | 84 | 0.0 |
| Darnell Sweeney | LF | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .500 | .000 | .353 | 126 | 0.0 |
| Gio Urshela | 3B | 16 | 46 | 10 | 1 | 3 | 0 | .233 | .283 | .326 | .271 | 68 | -0.0 |
| Aaron Sanchez | P | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -122 | -0.0 |
| Marco Estrada | P | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -122 | -0.0 |
| Jake Petricka | P | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -122 | -0.0 |
| Yangervis Solarte | 3B | 122 | 506 | 106 | 17 | 54 | 1 | .226 | .277 | .378 | .286 | 79 | -0.0 |
| Sean Reid-Foley | P | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -122 | -0.0 |
| Jaime García | P | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -122 | -0.0 |
| Dalton Pompey | LF | 5 | 11 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .200 | .273 | .200 | .224 | 35 | -0.1 |
| Jonathan Davis | CF | 14 | 27 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 3 | .200 | .259 | .240 | .230 | 40 | -0.1 |
| Anthony Alford | LF | 11 | 21 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | .105 | .190 | .105 | .151 | -16 | -0.2 |
| Gift Ngoepe | 2B | 9 | 19 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .056 | .105 | .056 | .083 | -63 | -0.3 |
Pitching
30 pitchers, ranked by dbWAR.
| J.A. Happ | 31 | 31 | 177.2 | 17 | 6 | 0 | 193 | 3.65 | 3.98 | 1.13 | 9.8 | 2.4 |
| Ryan Borucki | 17 | 17 | 97.2 | 4 | 6 | 0 | 67 | 3.87 | 3.80 | 1.32 | 6.2 | 1.5 |
| Marcus Stroman | 19 | 19 | 102.1 | 4 | 9 | 0 | 77 | 5.54 | 3.91 | 1.48 | 6.8 | 1.5 |
| Seunghwan Oh | 73 | 0 | 68.1 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 79 | 2.63 | 3.29 | 1.01 | 10.4 | 1.1 |
| Sam Gaviglio | 26 | 24 | 123.2 | 3 | 10 | 0 | 105 | 5.31 | 4.69 | 1.44 | 7.6 | 0.6 |
| Tim Mayza | 37 | 0 | 35.2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 40 | 3.28 | 3.36 | 1.32 | 10.1 | 0.5 |
| Aaron Sanchez | 20 | 20 | 105.0 | 4 | 6 | 0 | 86 | 4.89 | 4.74 | 1.56 | 7.4 | 0.5 |
| Aaron Loup | 59 | 0 | 39.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 44 | 4.54 | 3.61 | 1.56 | 10.0 | 0.5 |
| John Axford | 50 | 1 | 54.2 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 54 | 5.27 | 3.98 | 1.35 | 8.9 | 0.4 |
| Ryan Tepera | 68 | 0 | 64.2 | 5 | 5 | 7 | 68 | 3.62 | 4.17 | 1.22 | 9.5 | 0.4 |
| Tyler Clippard | 73 | 1 | 68.2 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 85 | 3.67 | 4.24 | 1.17 | 11.1 | 0.3 |
| Jake Petricka | 41 | 0 | 45.2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 41 | 4.53 | 4.45 | 1.64 | 8.1 | 0.1 |
| Rhiner Cruz | 2 | 0 | 3.1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2.70 | 2.56 | 1.50 | 10.8 | 0.1 |
| Sean Reid-Foley | 7 | 7 | 33.1 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 42 | 5.13 | 4.96 | 1.56 | 11.3 | 0.1 |
| Mike Hauschild | 2 | 1 | 8.1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 4.32 | 4.12 | 1.32 | 5.4 | 0.1 |
| David Paulino | 7 | 0 | 6.2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 1.35 | 4.21 | 1.20 | 8.1 | 0.0 |
| Brandon Cumpton | 1 | 0 | 1.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 5.40 | 4.36 | 3.00 | 10.8 | 0.0 |
| Murphy Smith | 3 | 0 | 3.1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8.10 | 4.96 | 1.80 | 0.0 | -0.0 |
| Kendrys Morales | 1 | 0 | 1.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 6.16 | 1.00 | 0.0 | -0.0 |
| Taylor Guerrieri | 9 | 0 | 9.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 4.66 | 5.02 | 1.34 | 7.4 | -0.0 |
| Luis Santos | 15 | 1 | 20.0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 24 | 7.20 | 5.01 | 1.80 | 10.8 | -0.1 |
| Thomas Pannone | 12 | 6 | 43.0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 29 | 4.19 | 5.11 | 1.21 | 6.1 | -0.1 |
| Danny Barnes | 47 | 0 | 41.0 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 38 | 5.71 | 4.89 | 1.68 | 8.3 | -0.1 |
| José Manuel Fernández | 13 | 0 | 10.1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 6.10 | 5.68 | 1.35 | 5.2 | -0.1 |
| Chris Rowley | 2 | 0 | 0.2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 40.50 | 27.16 | 4.50 | 0.0 | -0.2 |
| Justin Shafer | 6 | 0 | 8.1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3.24 | 7.12 | 1.56 | 2.2 | -0.2 |
| Jaime García | 33 | 14 | 82.0 | 3 | 7 | 0 | 73 | 5.82 | 5.16 | 1.54 | 8.0 | -0.3 |
| Marco Estrada | 28 | 28 | 143.2 | 7 | 14 | 0 | 103 | 5.64 | 5.44 | 1.43 | 6.5 | -0.5 |
| Joe Biagini | 50 | 4 | 72.0 | 4 | 7 | 0 | 53 | 6.00 | 5.47 | 1.67 | 6.6 | -0.7 |
| Preston Guilmet | 8 | 0 | 10.0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 11.70 | 10.56 | 2.20 | 7.2 | -0.7 |
Attendance
Announced gate at 80 home dates, 2018.
- Average
- 29,066 80 home dates
- Median
- 28,568
- Total
- 2,325,281
- Best
- 48,115 2018-03-29
- Quietest
- 16,629 2018-04-02
- On the road
- 25,152 what they drew away
By situation
| Split | Games | Avg | Med | Low | High |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All home | 80 | 29,066 | 28,568 | 16,629 | 48,115 |
| Night | 45 | 24,902 | 24,494 | 16,629 | 37,254 |
| Day | 35 | 34,420 | 35,146 | 18,645 | 48,115 |
| Weekend | 39 | 32,135 | 33,127 | 21,167 | 44,352 |
| Weekday | 41 | 26,146 | 24,494 | 16,629 | 48,115 |
| On the road | 80 | 25,152 | 25,851 | 7,915 | 44,778 |
Through the season
| Month | Games | Average |
|---|---|---|
| Mar | 3 | 39,841 |
| Apr | 13 | 22,123 |
| May | 13 | 28,360 |
| Jun | 13 | 31,432 |
| Jul | 13 | 33,432 |
| Aug | 12 | 30,984 |
| Sep | 14 | 23,890 |
By season
Announced gate — tickets distributed, which is the figure every reference publishes and is not the same as people through the turnstile. A game the feed reports no gate for is left out rather than counted as empty. Seasons before attendance was carried into the lake are absent from the trend rather than shown as zero.
Game time
First pitch to final out across 161 completed games, 2018.
- Regulation
- 2:56 145 games
- All games
- 3:00
- Extra innings
- 3:31 16 of them
- Longest
- 4:20 2018-07-25, 11 inn
- Shortest
- 2:19 2018-05-08
By situation
| Split | Games | Avg | Med | Fastest | Longest |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All | 161 | 3:00 | 2:57 | 2:16 | 4:47 |
| Regulation | 145 | 2:56 | 2:56 | 2:16 | 3:54 |
| Extra innings | 16 | 3:31 | 3:32 | 2:44 | 4:47 |
| Home | 81 | 2:59 | 2:56 | 2:19 | 4:20 |
| Road | 80 | 3:00 | 2:59 | 2:16 | 4:47 |
| Day | 64 | 3:02 | 2:56 | 2:25 | 4:47 |
| Night | 97 | 2:58 | 2:58 | 2:16 | 3:54 |
Through the season
| Month | Games | Average |
|---|---|---|
| Mar | 3 | 2:46 |
| Apr | 13 | 3:02 |
| May | 13 | 3:11 |
| Jun | 13 | 2:55 |
| Jul | 13 | 3:01 |
| Aug | 12 | 2:50 |
| Sep | 14 | 2:59 |
By season
Regulation games only, in minutes. 176 minutes this season.
Elapsed time from first pitch to final out. The feed does not itemise delays, so a rain delay is inside these numbers with no way to subtract it. Games called early are excluded — five innings in ninety-three minutes is not a short game — but they still count in attendance, because the crowd turned up.
Toronto Blue Jays are 73-89, a .451 win rate, while their -123 run differential implies .427. That is about 4 wins ahead of it, usually a mix of bullpen sequencing and one-run luck.