‘It’s emotional to think about’: George Springer faces end of Blue Jays deal

TORONTO – Baseball is full of long days and short years, which is how it can simultaneously feel like George Springer’s been with the Toronto Blue Jays forever and that the six seasons in his then-club-record $150-million free-agent contract have flown by. So much has happened since he signed that fateful agreement Jan. 23, 2021, while the federal government’s pandemic restrictions that locked the club out of its home for a season-and-a-half were still in place. Despite 91 wins, the Blue Jays missed the playoffs by one measly game in that vagabond three-home-sites ’21 season, before jarring wild-card exits followed…