TAMPA — At this time last year, Troy Tulowitzki was battling bone spurs in each heel and unsure what was ahead of him.
“I was on the back field in Dunedin wondering how I was going to get through the season,’’ said Tulowitzki, the former Blue Jays shortstop.
Tulowitzki’s season never started because he had surgery on each heel to remove bone spurs on April 2. After missing the entire season, the Blue Jays released him in December despite owing him $38 million.
Move the calendar forward 12 months and Tulowitzki looks like he is 24 instead of 34 and nothing like a player who hasn’t participated in a regular-season big-league game since July 28, 2017.