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And the 32-year-old third baseman couldn’t help drop another thinly-veiled shot at the new regime running his old team in Toronto.

While seemingly thrilled to be reunited with Anthopoulos, Donaldson let it be known he was equally enthusiastic about being reunited with former Jays trainer George Poulis and his assistant, Mike Frostad who Anthopoulos brought south prior to the 2018 season.

“I’m excited to be back with Alex and a lot of the training staff with the Toronto Blue Jays because they know me and they know how to keep me on the field,” Donaldson said at his introductory press conference at SunTrust Park. “And that’s the biggest part.”

Ouch.

In the days before his time with the Jays ended, Donaldson pointedly insisted that he felt his injury struggles in 2018 came in large part because he was at odds with the methods of the Jays medical staff and high performance department.

Toronto management took exception to that notion, of course, but the demise of Donaldson’s time with the Jays was unsightly from the beginning of training camp until the time he was dealt to the Cleveland Indians on Aug. 31.

Moreover, without a healthy Donaldson in the lineup, the Jays were not remotely competitive, hastening the massive rebuild currently well under way with his former team, an outlook in stark contrast to the club he joins in Atlanta.