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Maybe next week at the BMW Championship we might see him on TV. But it will help if he’s winning or playing with Tiger.

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• And finally, the window slammed shut on the Toronto Blue Jays at some point last season but if there was any doubt about how far and how fast they’ve fallen, it was removed with the Josh Donaldson trade.

Just two years after their second straight appearance in the ALCS, the Jays unloaded their best player and the team’s heartbeat to the rival Cleveland Indians and paid the Indians to take him. Their return? The name making the rounds is 27-year-old pitcher Julian Merryweather who’s yet to pitch in the big leagues and is coming off Tommy John surgery.

This represents the final slap in the face to Blue Jays’ fans.

Donaldson was the best player in franchise history. Robbie Alomar might have had a better career with the Jays but, in his three peak years in Toronto, Donaldson was an elite run producer and a team leader who played a key defensive position. In 2015, his MVP season, he scored 122 runs and drove in 123. Carlos Delgado and others had big seasons with the Jays but for the completeness of his game, Donaldson was the best.

His peak years also coincided with a two-year run in which the Jays captured the imagination of the GTA and most of this country. There wasn’t much to cheer about in Toronto from 1993 to 2014 but Donaldson helped change that with a supremely talented team.

Now it’s gone, the players scattered all over the baseball world leaving Jays’ fans nothing but memories. Yes, the Jays were unlucky with Aaron Sanchez and, perhaps, the age factor with so many key veterans made their decline an inevitability. But the Mark Shapiro-Ross Atkins front office tandem also mismanaged the organization’s key assets to an alarming degree and ownership, once more, tried to get by on the cheap.

They’ve got Vladdy Guerrero Jr., coming and some other bright young things but their prospects should have been stepping into a far healthier situation. It’s a long way to get back to the territory the Jays occupied in 2015 and 2016. Their fans are about to find out how long.

ewilles@postmedia.com