George Springer’s time with the Blue Jays is down to its final three games, and the ending has the feel of a chapter closing that most people never quite expected to open in the first place.
When the six-year, $150 million deal was first reported, it landed in a strange moment - the middle of winter, the middle of the COVID pandemic, and just days after the Capitol Riot. Even then, the reaction around the Blue Jays’ online world was split.
Springer’s role with the 2017 Houston Astros made him a difficult player to embrace for some fans. That hesitation didn’t last long.
Now, with free agency looming again and the belief that he won’t be back, the question is no longer whether the Blue Jays got everything they hoped for. It’s whether the deal was worth it.
The answer, in this telling, is simple: yes.
Not because of a spreadsheet, and not because of some careful accounting of every good and bad week across six seasons. It comes back to one moment.
Game seven, seventh inning. The second-biggest home run in team history.
That swing matters more than the injuries, more than the rough stretches, more than the years when Springer moved from being a regular outfielder to someone who “could” play the outfield only as a last resort. It matters more because when he was right, he gave the Blue Jays exactly what they were paying for: impact, energy and a bat that could change a game in one cut.
He delivered regular-season wins with big home runs. He brought the kind of presence that pulled people out of their seats. And in 2025, even as many had written him off, he kept producing when it counted.
That pennant-clinching blast is the image that hangs over everything else. Game seven, seventh inning. Second-biggest home run in team history.
If Springer does get at-bats this weekend against Cincinnati, the case here is that he should be met with a standing ovation every time he steps into the box. His work went beyond the numbers on the field. It included clubhouse leadership and community ambassadorship, and that deserves recognition too.
He also made a choice. He could have stayed in Houston.
He could have gone to the New York Mets, which would have made sense for a player who grew up in Connecticut. Instead, he picked the Blue Jays.
He pushed back against the old line that no free agent wanted to join the lone Canadian team and proved it wrong.
Six years for the team, the city and the country. Six years that went by in a flash. And if the curtain is indeed coming down, the proper sendoff is a loud one.
Thank you, George.
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