Baseball can be a fickle game. One minute you’re a star on the rise, and the next you’re a borderline afterthought. Unfortunately for Chris Colabello in Toronto, that’s exactly what happened last season.
Having been mostly a journeyman minor leaguer prior to 2013, Colabello joined the Blue Jays before the 2015 season, having shown enough the previous year with the Minnesota Twins to spark the Blue Jays’ interest. They obviously saw potential in the 1B/OFer, but it’s hard to imagine anyone expected the kind of performance he put up in 2015.
The Massachusetts native had appeared in 114 games between the 2013-14 seasons while with the Twins, hitting .