In 2016, the Toronto Blue Jays will be hoping that less is more with R.A. Dickey.
The 41-year-old has lost weight over the winter (which is reportedly possible) and arrived for camp feeling fully healthy after a previously-undisclosed torn meniscus in his right knee hampered him throughout nearly all of 2015.
Dickey tells Melissa Cuoto of CBC Sports that the injury to his right knee actually occurred four or five starts in to the season.
“If I could keep going, I wanted to keep going,” Dickey told Cuoto. “But it got to the point where we needed to figure out what it was so we could take care of it.