Even in the most trying moments, when it looked like his career had migrated north to never to return, George Springer refused to lose sense of who he is. Over the 2023 and 2024 seasons, the fearsomeness that had defined Springer's career vanished. And yet he balked at the idea that numbers would define him. He still believed greatness existed within, and any hope at a resurgence necessitated him being his truest self. Which is why every day when the music in the Toronto Blue Jays ' clubhouse thumped through the speakers, Springer would start to dance.

"There has to be a lightheartedness about the day," Springer said. "It doesn't matter how you're doing. I've kind of always been that way. When things are not going the way, you want 'em to, you tend to try to find and search for things

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