Maddy Dickens resides in Loveland, Colorado. She grew up with two older brothers, where their lives revolved around sports. She earned a master's degree in business management from Tarleton State University while simultaneously playing basketball and competing in rodeo at the collegiate level. She successfully parlayed a reserve national championship into a professional rodeo career and now stays involved in upper-level athletics by writing for On SI on several different MLB teams' pages, along with some NCAA sites.
It sure has been a thing of beauty to see Kazuma Okamoto swing a bat lately. Now that he is finding some confidence against major league pitchers, nobody can stop him from making the All-Star team
The Toronto organization should be tickled as to where the team sits with a bleeding roster as key guys inch closer to returning. However, some issues have to be addressed, whether the Jays are injured or not.
If there was a relief arm deserving of recognition, it was Varland from the Blue Jays. He has saved games for them and made sure to keep runs off the board.
The Blue Jays are begging for more players to come back to the roster, and one could be returning much sooner than later, which would be a huge relief for the hitting order.
There was hope that the Blue Jays would be getting a pitcher back from the injured list to add to the starting rotation. However, after his latest rehab start, he might not be back quite yet.
It has not been the start that the Blue Jays were after, but it is fairly easy to point the finger at injuries. As the season has progressed, however, they are getting close to some key players rejoining the roster.
