Blue Jays rout Mets on Canada Day as Guerrero Jr. shows signs of progress

TORONTO – This current bout of back tightness for Vladimir Guerrero Jr. feels similar to the one that locked him a couple of weeks ago, although this time it’s a little bit higher up. “More toward the obliques right now,” the Toronto Blue Jays first baseman said Wednesday. “But I feel way better than yesterday.” On Tuesday, Guerrero missed his fifth game of the year, one short of his single-season career high and almost a third of the way to his cumulative total of 18 from 2020 through 2025. A couple of weeks ago, he wasn’t sure what led his…