Jon Jay demonstrates possibly the worst dive you’ll ever see

St. Louis Cardinals outfielder Jon Jay is not a bad player. The 30-year-old owns a career .293/.358/.394 slash line over 2,464 plate appearances. He doesn’t hit for a ton of power, but he’s still a really useful player.

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Jon Jay is a good player. Have we stressed that enough? Good, because this diving attempt from Tuesday’s game against the Washington Nationals is one of the worst defensive plays we’ve ever seen.

This feels like the equivalent of Harry Doyle’s “just a bit outside” quote for an outfielder.

Coincidentally, this play took place during MLB Network’s Statcast game. We don’t want to pile on Jay, but we would love to see the route efficiency on that play. 

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Thankfully, the only thing this dive hurt was Jay’s pride. Cardinals pitcher Lance Lynn was able to pitch around the leadoff double, and made it out of the inning without giving up any runs.

Because of that, Jay can probably rest easy. It was embarrassing, sure, but it could have been worse. Sometimes, bad plays happen to good players. This was one of those instances. 

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Chris Cwik is a writer for Big League Stew on Yahoo Sports. Have a tip? Email him at [email protected] or follow him on Twitter! Follow @Chris_Cwik