KANSAS CITY -- Kevin Pillar probably wishes we weren't having this conversation, meeting in the dugout the day before he takes the field as a Blue Jay once again for Home Run Derby X. The event, a modified three-on-three, co-ed home run derby, features women's baseball and softball superstars lining up alongside some former MLB greats. He's back in Kansas City to represent the Blue Jays as he takes on representatives from the 2015 World Series-winning Royals team and the 2015 NL pennant-winning Mets.

If Pillar had it his way, he'd still be on the Rangers, that "former MLB player" tag still a ways off in the future.

"The day that I got released and I got on that plane," Pillar told MLB.com, "I called my wife, I called my parents, my brother, my agent. I think I knew in my heart of hearts,

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