{"id":678665,"date":"2026-04-18T22:01:01","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T22:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/678665\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T22:01:01","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T22:01:01","slug":"blue-jays-daulton-varsho-not-in-lineup-vs-diamondbacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/678665\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Jays&#8217; Daulton Varsho not in lineup vs. Diamondbacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a class=\"sn-team-post-link\" data-team=\"toronto-blue-jays\" data-league=\"mlb\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/baseball\/mlb\/teams\/toronto-blue-jays\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Toronto Blue Jays<\/a> will look to bounce back against the Arizona Diamondbacks without a key bat.<\/p>\n<p>Varsho exited Friday&#8217;s loss in the third inning with right knee discomfort. Manager John Schneider confirmed that the outfielder will not undergo imaging and is considered day-to-day. <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s unclear if Varsho will be available off the bench for the Blue Jays. <\/p>\n<p>The 29-year-old entered Friday as one of Toronto&#8217;s hottest hitters. After his first-inning strikeout, Varsho owned a .262\/.333\/.462 slashline with three home runs and four doubles.<\/p>\n<p>Varsho dealt with shoulder and hamstring issues in 2025, but still managed to hit 20 home runs in the 71 games that he did play.<\/p>\n<p>Now without Varsho, the Blue Jays&#8217; depth is being further tested, as lineup regulars George Springer, Addison Barger and Alejandro Kirk are already on the injured list. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Toronto Blue Jays will look to bounce back against the Arizona Diamondbacks without a key bat. Varsho&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":678666,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2404],"tags":[146,22,4314,5,38,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-678665","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arizona-diamondbacks","8":"tag-arizona","9":"tag-arizona-diamondbacks","10":"tag-arizonadiamondbacks","11":"tag-baseball","12":"tag-diamondbacks","13":"tag-mlb"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=678665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678665\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/678666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=678665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=678665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=678665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}