Bautista having bad days is the one from Dirk Hayhurst at Sportsnet. Jeff Blair of the Globe and Mail has another, titled Bautista’s temper a concern for Jays’ manager Gibbons. Over in the Toronto Sun, Ken Fidlin writes Blue Jays monitoring Bautista’s plate passion.
Yes, Jose Bautista’s too-demonstrative seething when calls don’t go his way has been something of a topic of conversation here during the early part of the Grapefruit League season– to the point where you can be forgiven for assuming, based on the mini cavalcade of reports, and despite the fact that in all of them lengths are taken to downplay it, that it’s even actually a genuine problem facing the club.
You’d be wrong, of course. But you could be forgiven– though it’s probably going to have to be for the last damn time, since it’s not exactly like it’s new to have Bautista’s on-field body language become a media issue in lieu of there being anything else to talk about.
