Some news out of Toronto Blue Jays camp:

Maicer Izturis has announced his retirement saying his body could not do it anymore. #bluejays He was in camp as a minor league invitee. — Richard Griffin (@RGriffinStar) March 4, 2016

Izturis was technically under contract with the Blue Jays in 2015, but he hasn’t played in an MLB game since April, 2014 due to injuries. And his retirement means Bartolo Colon is the last remaining former Montreal Expos player in Major League Baseball. Bruce Chen, another former Expos pitcher, retired after making two starts for the Cleveland Indians in 2015.

When the club moved to Washington for the 2005 season, Colon would not have been anyone’s pick to be the final Expo playing. The righty, who will turn 43 in May, is four years older than Chen and more than seven years older than Izturis. Colon’s lone half-season with the Expos came in 2002 while he was already an established, 29-year-old big-league veteran.

And the circumstances that put Colon on the Expos remain a dark moment in the franchise’s history. In 2002, with the league threatening to contract the team, acting GM Omar Minaya went all-in to compete by trading a package of players that included future All-Stars Cliff Lee, Brandon Phillips and Grady Sizemore.

Phillips is still playing, Sizemore played in 2015 and is still looking for a job this spring, and Lee hasn’t technically retired yet. But while all of those guys came up in the Expos’ system, none of them actually played for the Major League club. Same goes for former Expos draft pick Ian Desmond, who debuted after the franchise moved to D.C.

Colon, meanwhile, is a human miracle. He will almost certainly be the oldest player to see Major League action this season, and he’s still a durable innings-eater in the back end of an excellent rotation. He was a fireballer in his Expos days, but reinvented himself after a series of arm injuries and now relies on tons of movement and impeccable control.

True story: One season after Colon won the Cy Young Award in 2005, I watched him throw a rehab game in Salt Lake City while on a road trip with my friends. He got torched, and we all left thinking, “man, that guy is toast.” Not one of us thought, “10 full years from now this guy will still be a delightful and productive Major Leaguer.” But here we are:

There’s increasing talk now that Major League Baseball could return to Montreal. Here’s hoping Colon’s still going when that happens.

(An earlier version of this post said that Grady Sizemore is battling for a job with the Nationals. He is currently unsigned. Scott Sizemore is in Nationals’ camp.)