Jose Bautista back with the Blue Jays in a new temporary role

While Bautista has been retired for quite some time now, he still follows the Blue Jays quite closely as he recently spoke in an interview about how good Addison Barger is this season.

This past week, Bautista stopped by in Dunedin at the Blue Jays complex to help out their prospects with hitting as the team's temporary hitting coach.

There are very few players in Blue Jays history that can help out young players more when it comes to hitting than Bautista as he was one of the best sluggers in the MLB during his era.

Bautista spent 10 years with the Blue Jays and his best season came back in 2010 when he finished with an unbelievable 54 homeruns, 124 RBIs, .260 batting average and .378 on base percentage.

This little tricks on bringing in former players to help out with prospects seems to be helping out the Blue Jays as they have taking some big steps forward when it comes to their farm system this season.

The Blue Jays farm system started off the season at the bottom but has since jumped quite a bit going from 27th to 20th, moving up 7 spots at the mid season rankings.

Bautista is not the only former Blue Jay to help out with their prospect as outfielder Kevin Kiermaier has been helping out a lot this season as he was most recently the first base coach for a bit with the Vancouver Canadians.

Now that Bautista has had a taste of coaching, it will be interesting to see if he would be willing to take on a more permanent role.