Jose Bautista doesn’t easily trust anyone. He can be aloof, intense, sensitive, occasionally difficult.
He trusts Bob Elliott implicitly.
Which says as much about the Toronto Sun’s long-time baseball writer as it does about the most prominent and outspoken Blue Jays star.
Today is not a happy day or necessarily a good day for the Sun, for the newspaper business, for Bautista and so many ballplayers, for scouts, for managers that he has amassed as friends, for sources and lovers of the game. After 29-and-a-half years being the best in the industry, today is Elliott’s last day at the Sun.