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Vladimir Guerrero Jr. is sprayed with Gatorade after defeating the New York Yankees on Saturday.

The Toronto Blue Jays won’t begin paying Vladimir Guerrero Jr. his half-billion dollars until next year, but he started earning it on Saturday. First thing on his to-do list - transform himself from Yankee irritant to “Yankee killer.”

Throughout September, the team’s biggest name was so marginal a figure that you’d have to check his punch card to be sure he’d shown up for work. Only two home runs, and none since the first week of the month.

It wasn’t just the numbers. It was how Guerrero looked - tired, and out of sorts. The Jays said he was feeling fine. A day before the playoffs began, Guerrero was keeping it mysterious, saying the team had to win “regardless of how I feel.”

That

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