3 Reasons for Why the Jays may Falter

1. Starting Rotation. Baseball is weird in the way where your top pitcher goes once maybe twice during a span of a week of games. Like the other major sports, depth on teams are huge barring injuries and players with off-years. The Jays shutdown Brandon Morrow last year in his 1st year as a starter, trying to limit his innings. Morrow returns healthy and strong but joins a small list of Ricky Romero and Brett Cecil as penciled-in starters. Since trading away Shaun Marcum, the 4 and 5 spots in the rotation are up in the air. If everything goes to plan, young phenom Kyle Drabek will take either the 4 of 5 spot but after him their is a large list of questions. The 3 best possible candidates are all question marks, coming off injuries; Scott Richmond, Jesse Litsch and Dustin McGowan. John Farrell will improve the rotation, but he can only improve with he currently is working with.
2. Blue Collar Bullpen. Out: Scott Downs, Kevin Gregg, Jeremy Accardo and Brian Tallet. In: A pluthera of arms in Jon Rauch, Ocatvio Dotel, Frank Francisco, Chad Cordero and Carols Villaneuva add in the likes of Jesse Carlson, Shaun Camp, Jason Frasor and Casey Janssen and you got yourself a crowded bullpen. It's not a matter of depth here but it may be come a question off quantity overmatching quality. 9 players in a bullpen without a solid closer and a strong set-up man. The Jays haven't had a great closer since B.J. Ryan's recorded 38 saves in 2006. It should be an interesting battle for the Closing spot but until someone comes out, this remains a major question mark.
3. Consistency. Until the Jays start competing late into September, one word will keep getting thrown out; Consistency .No doubt this team has the talent to compete its just a matter of how they go about doing their thing on a day-to-day basis. Consistency is a very broad word and in this case it revolves around a lot of things. Consistently getting quality starts from both the Rotation and the Bullpen.Consistently learn to finish games and most importantly Consistently win. The one thing they did do consistently was hit home runs, a Major league leading 257 of them. Lacked consistent base runners, that would have made some of those solo home runs, 2 run shots. 162 games in a year and at one point or another the Jays hit a dry spell. History shows that it happens between the months of July and Early-to-mid August. Great teams find a way out of the dry spells, some don't even let that happen. The Jays need to bring a WIN attitude to the field each and every day, and its something new Manager John Farrell is trying to implement.