TORONTO – Toronto Blue Jays catcher Alejandro Kirk will undergo surgery to repair a left thumb fracture after taking a foul tip to his catching hand in a game last week.<\/p>\n
Manager John Schneider said specifics on a recovery timeline won’t be known until after Tuesday’s procedure, but he expected it would likely be an absence of at least three-to-six weeks.<\/p>\n
“It’s nothing with the ligament, it’s a fractured thumb,” Schneider said Monday. “So we’ll see when they get in there.”<\/p>\n
Kirk was placed on the 10-day injured list Saturday. Kirk left a game against the Chicago White Sox on Friday night immediately after Austin Hays fouled a pitch off his glove.<\/p>\n
In addition to the fracture, Kirk’s thumb was dislocated. Tyler Heineman has filled in since his departure along with recent triple-A call-up Brandon Valenzuela.<\/p>\n
Kirk, a two-time all-star, hit .282 last season with 15 homers and 76 runs-batted in. He had three hits in 20 at-bats to start this season.<\/p>\n
“What he can do on both sides of the ball is pretty unique,” Schneider said in a media availability before a night game against the Los Angeles Dodgers. “Whether it’s contact, home runs, catching, blocking, throwing, just (his) superpower is (that) he’s just so steady.”<\/p>\n
Kirk, 27, played for Mexico at the World Baseball Classic last month. He made his big-league debut with the Blue Jays in 2020.<\/p>\n
“It’s tough for sure, but we’ve got to have guys step up,” Schneider said.<\/p>\n
Also on Monday, the Blue Jays selected left-hander Josh Fleming to the major-league roster and designated right-hander Austin Voth for assignment.<\/p>\n
Schneider also said an update on injured right-hander Cody Ponce (knee) was expected Tuesday after he meets with doctors in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n
Ponce, who’s on the 60-day IL, sprained the anterior cruciate ligament in his right knee during a March 30 game against the Colorado Rockies.<\/p>\n
This report by The Canadian Press was first published April 6, 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TORONTO – Toronto Blue Jays catcher Alejandro Kirk will undergo surgery to repair a left thumb fracture after…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":667153,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2288],"tags":[2309,5,2316,2313,2325,3518,2335,9492,19,2310,2328,2304,2318,2308,2319,4,2305,2303,2307,2327,2321,185,2311,2312],"class_list":{"0":"post-667152","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb-postseason","8":"tag-ball-and-bat-games","9":"tag-baseball","10":"tag-baseball-competitions","11":"tag-baseball-playoffs-and-champions","12":"tag-baseball-teams","13":"tag-catcher","14":"tag-home-run","15":"tag-knee","16":"tag-major-league-baseball","17":"tag-major-league-baseball-competitions","18":"tag-major-league-baseball-playoffs","19":"tag-major-league-baseball-postseason","20":"tag-major-league-baseball-seasons","21":"tag-major-league-baseball-teams","22":"tag-major-league-baseball-teams-seasons","23":"tag-mlb","24":"tag-mlb-playoffs","25":"tag-mlb-postseason","26":"tag-outdoor-sports","27":"tag-seasons-in-american-sport","28":"tag-seasons-in-baseball","29":"tag-sports","30":"tag-team-sports","31":"tag-turf-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667152","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=667152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667152\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/667153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=667152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=667152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=667152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}