When the 2018 season began, Nate Pearson had an opportunity to show the Blue Jays and all of baseball why he was a first round pick, and why he would eventually make the team that drafted him looked brilliant compared to the other 27 that passed on him in the first round the year before.
And then, in just the second inning of his first start of the season with the High-A Dunedin Blue Jays, Pearson took a come-backer off of the forearm of his pitching hand, breaking his right ulna bone. As a result, his season with the Dunedin Blue Jays was over almost as quickly as it started.