NEW YORK — Jose Bautista had just concluded his breakout 2010 season — 54 home runs, 100 walks, the first of six consecutive All-Star appearances at age 29 — when manager Clint Hurdle made his way to Pittsburgh and needed a place to stay. Bautista hadn’t played for the Pirates since 2008, but he still had a home there.
“My first place that I laid my head down in Pittsburgh for about three months, I rented his furnished house in Shaler,” Hurdle said. “He was my landlord.”
Now 37, Bautista is in the final act of his career.