Blue Jays' Hoffman Struggles in Ninth

0:00On April 15th, the Toronto Blue Jays pitching staff is banged up bad this season with five key arms out, including starters, Jose Barrios, Trey, Yessivage, Shane Bieber from Spring Training, Cody Ponce during the year, and high-leveraged reliever, Yemi Garcia from off-season surgery. Yessivage looks one or two rehab starts from jumping back into the rotation, putting extra heat on closer Jeff Hoffman to hold down the ninth inning. Fans and stats show Hoffman's been shaky in his second year with Toronto, posting a 4.32 ERA over 8.1 innings in nine, games with 18 strikeouts, a 1-in-1 record, and just two saves out of five chances. That blew up after he gave up two runs, Tuesday against the Brewers, landing him fifth all time in Blue Jays' history for worst ninth inning ERA at 4.52, while the team's overall staff sits at 4.79 ERA, 26th in the majors. Signed to a three-year $33 million deal, the 33-year-old Hoffman had a 4.37 mark-last

1:04season with, 33 saves, but with starters at 5.08 ERA and the pen at 4.54 returns like Garcia's should ease the load. Soon as they battle through these early rough weeks. From your team, powered by AI, this is Toronto Blue Jays News Today. I'm Corey with the story.