José Bautista is a Toronto Blue Jays legend. There&#8217;s no doubt about it, and one can&#8217;t really say enough to that end. He defined Toronto Blue Jays baseball for a decade, and was central to making the team popular and relevant again. And, <a href="https://sports.vice.com/en_ca/article/yw3dpx/jose-bautista-has-made-a-career-of-taking-shit-like-a-champion">as I wrote last September</a> as his time as a Blue Jay was coming to an end, he took way more shit from way more people than he ever deserved to, and he did it like a champion.
Fuck&#8230;
José Bautista: the best.
And one player who knows all that as well as anybody, and who &#8212; as you&#8217;ll see below &#8212; has as great an admiration for the Jays&#8217; former superstar as anybody, is Marcus Stroman.
Stroman spoke today in a video for <a href="https://www.theplayerstribune.com">the Players&#8217; Tribune</a> about what Bautista meant to him, to the team, and how he was taken under the slugger&#8217;s wing from the very beginning.
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Legend.

José Bautista is a Toronto Blue Jays legend. There's no doubt about it, and one can't really say enough to that end. He defined Toronto Blue Jays baseball for a decade, and was central to making the team popular and relevant again. And, <a href="https://sports.vice.com/en_ca/article/yw3dpx/jose-bautista-has-made-a-career-of-taking-shit-like-a-champion">as I wrote last September</a> as his time as a Blue Jay was coming to an end, he took way more shit from way more people than he ever deserved to, and he did it like a champion.

Fuck...

José Bautista: the best.

And one player who knows all that as well as anybody, and who -- as you'll see below -- has as great an admiration for the Jays' former superstar as anybody, is Marcus Stroman.

Stroman spoke today in a video for <a href="https://www.theplayerstribune.com">the Players' Tribune</a> about what Bautista meant to him, to the team, and how he was taken under the slugger's wing from the very beginning.

https://twitter.com/PlayersTribune/status/956938955785691138

Legend.

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