Blue Jays' Colabello taking nothing for granted

Toronto Blue Jays manager John Gibbons (right) and first baseman Chris Colabello (15) talk during practice at Bobby Mattick Training Center in Dunedin, Fla., on Feb. 22, 2016. (Kim Klement/USA TODAY Sports)DUNEDIN — Chris Colabello has invested too much of his time, too much of his energy, entirely too much of himself to ever take anything for granted in the game of baseball.

Colabello spent seven years in independent baseball and another year in the minors before he got his first cup of coffee in the majors with the Minnesota Twins in 2013, just short of his 30th birthday. He got another brief stay with the Twins in 2014 before coming to camp with the Blue Jays last year. An early cut, he…