There were times this season, even more so last season, where I was convinced that Bo Bichette would never re-sign with the Blue Jays after he arrived at jackpot free agency.

Oh, he always said the same thing, repeated it in the funereal aftermath of the team’s World Series Game 7 loss . “I’ve said I want to be here from the beginning.’’

But the brass never approached him with the same urgency they had toward Vladimir Guerrero Jr., if you can call going through the entire winter without locking their franchise player into a mega-millionaire contract extension urgency . Vladdy is a Jay for life.

Now, for the first time since he was a teenager, Bichette is no longer Jays property. As free as the wind, or the wind flowing through his signature long tresses before he lopped th

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