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Inbox: Biggest issue with new additions?

Toronto had the eighth-most strikeouts in the American League last year and added high strikeout guys in Curtis Granderson and Randal Grichuk. Do you see this as being as big of a problem as I do?
-- Glen J., Kamloops, British Columbia

Strikeouts should be a concern, but the bigger issue is on-base percentage. Toronto projects to start five players who finished last season with an OBP below the Major League average of .324: Kendrys Morales (.308), Troy Tulowitzki (.300), Grichuk (.285), Granderson (.323) and Kevin Pillar (.