Let me start by saying that I regularly defend Jose Bautista. I have friends who root for several other MLB teams, and “Joey Bats” is one of the most disliked players the Jays have ever had, as far as I can tell. That’s always been fine by me, because well, he’s on our team and he’s been a great player for a long time.
But every once in awhile he says or does something that I can’t really defend. His reported contract demands in the spring of 2016 being the first that jumps to my mind as an instance where even I had to admit, “I don’t know what he’s thinking”.