Blue Jays All-Star closer has been 'nearly perfect' in breakout year

The Toronto Blue Jays are hanging around in the American League Wild Card race. As of Tuesday morning, they are 1.5 games behind the Cleveland Guardians for the third and final Wild Card spot. To get there, the AL East club will need to play clean baseball the rest of the way. That means no blown saves. Usually, that's not a problem for the Blue Jays, who have one of the best closers in the sport. Bleacher Report's Kerry Miller wrote that Louis Varland is one of the top breakout performers of the year in the Majors. "In [Bryan] Baker, [Jacob] Latz and Varland, what a year it has been for breakout closers in the American League," Miller wrote. "Prior to this season, Varland had never saved a game in the majors or the minors, and he only got the job because Jeff Hoffman couldn't save anythin