Jose Bautista earned one last hurrah in Toronto. It would have been better when it actually mattered
In a small ceremony on Friday, the Jays signed a one-day contract with Jose Bautista. On Saturday, he will retire a Toronto Blue Jay.
But there was something different. It took you a while to figure out what it was – Bautista was smiling. Not smirking, or showing you his bottom teeth as a warning that if you keep walking toward my locker horrible things will happen, but smiling. I don’t remember seeing that before. It doesn’t suit him.
The Bautista moment that’s still resonating today happened a couple of years later, at spring training. His contract was coming up and he didn’t feel like negotiating. Instead, Bautista made a whimsical dollar demand and then took his grievances to the media.
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