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October 1, 2013 Toronto Blue Jays activated RF Jose Bautista from the 15-day disabled list. July 25, 2016 Toronto Blue Jays activated RF Jose Bautista from the 15-day disabled list. August 10, 2016 Toronto Blue Jays placed RF Jose Bautista on the 15-day disabled list.

From June 14 to 24, he hit five home runs in a span of nine games against interleague opponents Baltimore, Chicago White Sox, Toronto Blue Jays, and the New York Yankees. However, he struggled offensively for most of the year, and after the 2008 trade deadline Bautista lost his starting job to the newly acquired Andy LaRoche. Bautista was optioned to the Triple-A Indianapolis Indians on August 13.
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I don't want to call anything in the home run derby disappointing since the whole thing is stupid, but if anything were to be disappointing, it would be Jose Bautista hitting four home runs in a round.
Every so often, a hotshot rookie would take the mound and try to be the first guy to get Bautista out in months. Every attempt resulted in a first-pitch home run, and so the attempts stopped. His .617 SLG stands as the second-highest in Blue Jays history and his .995 OPS is the fifth-highest among all Blue Jays seasons.
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After leading the major leagues in home runs for the second consecutive season with 43, Bautista became the first player to do so since Mark McGwire in 1998 and 1999. Baustista also led the majors in slugging percentage (.608), OPS (1.056) and walks and the AL in intentional walks . He batted .302 and also placed in the top ten in the league in runs scored , total bases and times on base .

The world's greatest home-run hitter became the world's greatest walker. At first, there was resentment towards the Blue Jays' opponents. The Rogers Centre was selling small rubber chickens by the thousands. Boos would cascade down from the stands every time a catcher would stand out of his crouch and begin the slow pace to his right when Bautista walked up to the box. Hit Tracker Online shows that only one of his 54 home runs went the opposite way, to right field. Baseball Reference has an entry for "last game played," but if you google "Jose Bautista retires," the story stops a year ago with various pieces observing the same thing--that he never officially announced.
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An MLB All-Star selection six consecutive times, he won three Silver Slugger Awards and two Hank Aaron Awards. In addition, he received the American League Player of the Month Award five times, and the AL Player of the Week four times. Before being traded to the Blue Jays, Bautista primarily played third base.

One was to move first base coach Dwayne Murphy to replace the retiring Gene Tenace as hitting coach. In September and October, he finally broke through, hitting 10 home runs with 21 RBI, a .257 batting average and a .606 slugging percentage . He hit 13 total home runs in 2009 with 40 RBI, a batting average of .235, and 79 hits in 113 games. Originally considered to be a non-tender candidate, he re-signed with the Blue Jays on a one-year, $2.4 million US contract for the 2010 season. Two batters later, Bautista, intending to break-up a double play, made a hard, but no longer legal , slide into second basemen Rougned Odor.
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A vital symbol of Toronto's first postseason appearance since 1993, the bat flip was voted Esurance's MLB Award for Best Play on Offense for 2015. In the five games of the ALDS, Bautista batted .273 with two home runs and five RBI. Playing against the Oakland Athletics on July 30, Bautista hit his 25th home run of the season.

Bautista had gotten a taste of what he wanted to be, and he decided he wanted the whole dish. His first four-homer game came on May 22, against the Astros. His first five-homer game - and the first five-homer game in Major League history - followed a few days later, on May 26 against the White Sox.
Bautista was activated on August 24, but returned to the disabled list on August 26 after he re-aggravated the injury to his left wrist. On August 28, the Jays announced that he would undergo season-ending surgery on the wrist. In 2012, Bautista batted .241 with 27 home runs and 65 RBI in 92 games. In 2015, while playing in the playoffs for the first time, his bat flip in the American League Division Series caused a sensation that became a symbol of Toronto's first playoff appearance in 22 years. In 2011, Bautista set up a program that assists athletes from the Dominican Republic to attend universities in the United States. For someone whose previous statistics suggested a below-average hitter with modest power at best, the improvement is shocking.
Already, Bautista has taken a place in baseball’s record books. Among those with at least 400 plate appearances the season before, Bautista is the only player to improve his home run total by 39 from one year to the next. The old record, 38, was held by the Atlanta Braves’ Davey Johnson after he jumped to 43 home runs in 1973 from 5 the year before. That day, he launched a two-run homer to left off Twins starter Jeff Manship.