But Jose Bautista, the consummate Jay these past eight-plus years, heard you as he walked, head down, to the dugout and an unclear future. Bautista went out — if this is the leaving part — as a pending free agent with little indication from management that they have interest in re-signing the yesterday-turned-36-year-old, though surely to heaven they’ll at least tender a qualifying offer. “Not necessarily what I wanted right there.’’He was standing up against the “talking pillar” in the Toronto clubhouse, where on so many nights reporters have waited and waited and waited for Bautista to show. I just don’t think it’s the right time to be talking about that. Bautista: “I wanted to be on a plane to Cleveland.”

Source: thestar October 19, 2016 22:58 UTC