{"id":663148,"date":"2026-04-04T17:54:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T17:54:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/663148\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T17:54:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T17:54:19","slug":"blue-jays-confirm-brutal-alejandro-kirk-injury-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/663148\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Jays confirm brutal Alejandro Kirk injury news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Alejandro Kirk injury news has turned out to be quite a bummer.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/mlb\/toronto-blue-jays\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Toronto Blue Jays<\/a> likely headed into Saturday hoping it wouldn&#8217;t be as bad as feared, but it&#8217;s a tough outcome in the end.<\/p>\n<p>The Blue Jays placed Kirk on the Injured List on Saturday. He had exited action Friday night in the 10th inning after taking a foul ball off his left thumb beneath his catcher&#8217;s mitt.<\/p>\n<p>The Blue Jays announced that Kirk&#8217;s injury is a left thumb fracture.<\/p>\n<p>MORE:\u00a0<a target=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/mlb\/los-angeles-dodgers\/news\/2-mlb-players-named-max-muncy-mind-blowing-things-common-dodgers\/23ff57d286098cef7421893b\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Explaining the absurdity of 2 MLB players named Max Muncy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>They called up Brandon Valenzuela from Triple-A Buffalo to be their second catcher behind the fill-in starter Tyler Heineman.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Blue Jays reporter <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/thehazelmae\/status\/2040464459395973412?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">Hazel Mae<\/a> reported, &#8220;Kirk will visit Dr. Graham in Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania on Monday and see if they need to do any kind of surgical intervention or pin in his thumb.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Blue Jays manager John Schneider told reporters, via Mae, that Kirk also dislocated his left thumb in addition to the fracture.<\/p>\n<p>Schneider added that the fracture occurred in the middle of the thumb, &#8220;Almost over the knuckle,&#8221; and described it as &#8220;weird.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>MORE:\u00a0<a target=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/mlb\/boston-red-sox\/news\/meet-tyler-uberstine-red-sox-newest-roster-addition-path-mlb-impossible\/7f5fabf8bc017b19785adf15\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">This Red Sox pitcher traveled an impossible path to the major leagues<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Blue Jays don&#8217;t believe there is any ligament damage.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a brutal development in the early going as the reigning American League champions try to repeat in the AL East and potentially make it back to the World Series.<\/p>\n<p>Kirk is one of the best defensive catchers in baseball in addition to his impressive bat-to-ball skills at the plate.<\/p>\n<p>Without Kirk, the Blue Jays are definitely a worse team.<\/p>\n<p>More MLB news:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Alejandro Kirk injury news has turned out to be quite a bummer. The Toronto Blue Jays likely&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":403187,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2378],"tags":[5,377,2554,4,282,70,2553],"class_list":{"0":"post-663148","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-toronto-blue-jays","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-blue-jays","10":"tag-bluejays","11":"tag-mlb","12":"tag-toronto","13":"tag-toronto-blue-jays","14":"tag-torontobluejays"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116347723335361382","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663148","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=663148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663148\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/403187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=663148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=663148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=663148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}