{"id":110188,"date":"2025-08-31T18:04:06","date_gmt":"2025-08-31T18:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/110188\/"},"modified":"2025-08-31T18:04:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T18:04:06","slug":"blue-jays-claim-isiah-kiner-falefa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/110188\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Jays Claim Isiah Kiner-Falefa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Blue Jays have claimed utility man <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/k\/kineris01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-08-31_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Isiah Kiner-Falefa<\/a> off waivers from the Pirates, as reported by <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/JeffPassan\/status\/1962204378925855031\" rel=\"nofollow\">ESPN\u2019s Jeff Passan<\/a>. Toronto subsequently announced the move and transferred right-hander <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/g\/garciyi01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-08-31_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Yimi Garcia<\/a> to the 60-day injured list in order to create a 40-man roster spot for Kiner-Falefa.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a homecoming for Kiner-Falefa, who signed with Toronto prior to the 2024 season but was traded to Pittsburgh at last year\u2019s trade deadline. Just over a year later, he\u2019s headed back to the Blue Jays to join the team\u2019s bench for the playoff push. Unlike last year, Toronto is firmly in playoff position with a two-game lead in the AL East. While Kiner-Falefa was a regular fixture on the club\u2019s infield during his first stint with the organization, that\u2019s unlikely to be the case this season given that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/g\/gimenan01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-08-31_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Andres Gimenez<\/a> has taken over the everyday second base job while <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/c\/clemeer01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-08-31_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Ernie Clement<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/b\/bargead01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-08-31_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Addison Barger<\/a> have split time at the hot corner.<\/p>\n<p>More to come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Blue Jays have claimed utility man Isiah Kiner-Falefa off waivers from the Pirates, as reported by ESPN\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":110189,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[49,48,28427,82,7241],"class_list":{"0":"post-110188","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-isiah-kiner-falefa","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-yimi-garcia"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110188\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}