Blue Jays Week In Review: The good, the bad and the noteworthy for April 28

The Bad: They made every pitcher look like an ace

This week, the Blue Jays faced two legit aces in the Astros' Hunter Brown and the Yankees' Max Fried, but they also saw Ronel Blanco (5.01 ERA), Ryan Gusto (a rookie making his third big league start), Carlos Carrasco (5.26 ERA), and Clarke Schmidt (6.08 ERA).

Those four pitchers combined to have a 1.21 ERA with 17 strikeouts in 22 1/3 innings against the Blue Jays.

While the early part of the season gave Blue Jays fans optimism around the team's offense despite the lack of home runs since Toronto was still manufacturing runs.

Now the Jays are suddenly an easy team to pitch to, which has resulted in that optimism turning into pessimism.

From Gusto slicing the Blue Jays up with his game plan to Carrasco doing just enough to keep the Yankees in the game, opposing pitchers used all of their weapons to efficiently to keep Toronto's hitters off balance.

Gusto was using fastballs up and in and sweepers down and away against right-handed hitters, while also staying pitching away from left-handers. But his fastball sat at 94 miles per hour and none of his secondary pitches were incredibly overwhelming.

Carrasco’s fastball topped out at 92.5 MPH, and only 32 of 67 pitches were strikes, yet he only had two walks. The Blue Jays also somehow only made hard contact on eight of his pitches. These are the kind of pitchers the Blue Jays need to feast on.