TORONTO – Around this time last year, Myles Straw was considering retiring from professional baseball at the age of 29.

He’d spent the entire season up to that point playing for the triple-A Columbus Clippers, the minor-league affiliate of the Cleveland Guardians, after clearing outright waivers in March 2024. If Straw wasn’t going to be playing in the major leagues, he’d rather be focusing on his home life.

“I didn’t want to really play baseball anymore. I was almost through with it,” Straw told reporters on Sunday. “I thought of my daughter a lot.

“I just wanted to be with family, but I knew there was more left in the tank.”

Straw was a September call-up to the Guardians on Sept. 17, playing in seven games with one hit and two runs in four at-bats. He was then traded to Toronto on Ja

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