Jose Bautista signs one-day contract to officially retire with Toronto Blue Jays
As far as Jose Bautista is concerned, he retired with the Toronto Blue Jays years ago. It’s just official now.team president Mark Shapiro signed a one-day contract in front of media on Friday afternoon as the long-time Toronto slugger officially ended his playing career. Both of them acknowledged that Bautista’s retirement as a Blue Jay was overdue, but delayed by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Bautista started his Major League Baseball career in 2004 where he played for a remarkable four teams – Baltimore Orioles, Tampa Bay Devil Rays, Kansas City Rays, and Pittsburgh Pirates – in one season. He was traded to Toronto from the Pirates in August 2008 for Robinson Diaz. “It was a lot of work behind the scenes and I’m glad that I came to this organization at the time that I did because of everything that happened afterwards and they are a big part of that.”
Most famously, Bautista hit a dramatic three-run home run in the seventh inning of the fifth and final game of the 2015 American League Division Series as Toronto beat the Texas Rangers 6-3. Bautista’s celebratory bat flip is a treasured moment to Blue Jays fans, although it angered the Rangers and their supporters.
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