{"id":284067,"date":"2025-08-31T21:40:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-31T21:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/284067\/"},"modified":"2025-08-31T21:40:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T21:40:11","slug":"al-east-leading-blue-jays-reunite-with-veteran-inf-isiah-kiner-falefa-claiming-him-from-pirates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/284067\/","title":{"rendered":"AL East-leading Blue Jays reunite with veteran INF Isiah Kiner-Falefa, claiming him from Pirates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TORONTO (AP) \u2014 The AL East-leading Toronto Blue Jays claimed infielder Isiah Kiner-Falefa off waivers from the Pittsburgh Pirates on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>To make room on the roster, injured right-hander Yimi Garc\u00eda was transferred to the 60-day injured list. Garc\u00eda <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/yimi-garcia-anthony-santander-blue-jays-b4c331b8b2a8e01ea3286a544747378b\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:needs elbow surgery and is out for the year.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">needs elbow surgery and is out for the year.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Kiner-Falefa hit .264 with one home run and 35 RBIs in 119 games with the Pirates this season.<\/p>\n<p>An eight-year veteran who has also played for Texas and the New York Yankees, Kiner-Falefa signed \u200b\u200ba two-year, $15 million contract with Toronto ahead of the 2024 season. He played 83 games for the Blue Jays before he was traded to Pittsburgh at last year\u2019s deadline.<\/p>\n<p>__<\/p>\n<p>AP MLB: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TORONTO (AP) \u2014 The AL East-leading Toronto Blue Jays claimed infielder Isiah Kiner-Falefa off waivers from the Pittsburgh&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":284068,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2402],"tags":[5,2057,9956,4,62,10,776,64,4297,1567,70,2077],"class_list":{"0":"post-284067","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pittsburgh-pirates","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-isiah-kiner-falefa","10":"tag-kiner-falefa","11":"tag-mlb","12":"tag-new-york-yankees","13":"tag-pirates","14":"tag-pittsburgh","15":"tag-pittsburgh-pirates","16":"tag-pittsburghpirates","17":"tag-texas","18":"tag-toronto-blue-jays","19":"tag-yimi-garcia"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/115125552922093703","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=284067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284067\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/284068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}