OAKLAND, Calif. — More than three years have passed since the Oakland A’s traded third baseman Josh Donaldson to the Toronto Blue Jays, but he still savors every trip to the Oakland Coliseum.
“It’s fun,” Donaldson said Monday before the opener of a three-game series. “This is where it started for me, and I enjoy coming back.”
It was with Oakland that Donaldson made the transition from catcher to third baseman and quickly developed into one of baseball’s top sluggers. He hit 24 home runs in 2013 and 29 in 2014. Then in 2015, his first season with Toronto, Donaldson hit 41 home runs, drove in 123 runs, scored 122 times and was the American League’s MVP.