{"id":587786,"date":"2026-04-07T10:21:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T10:21:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/587786\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T10:21:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T10:21:16","slug":"blue-jays-catcher-kirk-to-undergo-surgery-for-thumb-fracture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/587786\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Jays catcher Kirk to undergo surgery for thumb fracture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cole Whiston, the host of Blue Jays Centre shares his thoughts on the Jays&#8217; season so far, ahead of their series against the Dodgers. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">TORONTO \u2014 Toronto Blue Jays catcher Alejandro Kirk will undergo surgery to repair a left thumb fracture.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Manager John Schneider says the procedure is scheduled for Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">There\u2019s no timeline yet on how long Kirk might be out of action.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He was placed on the 10-day injured list over the weekend after suffering the injury Friday in a road game against the Chicago White Sox. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Kirk\u2019s thumb was also dislocated after he took a foul tip to his catching hand. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The two-time all-star hit .282 last season with 15 homers and 76 runs-batted in. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This report by The Canadian Press was first published April 6, 2026. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Gregory Strong, The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cole Whiston, the host of Blue Jays Centre shares his thoughts on the Jays&#8217; season so far, ahead&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":587787,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,84,44,82,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-587786","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-health","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-top-news","13":"tag-top-stories","14":"tag-topnews","15":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587786","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=587786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587786\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/587787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=587786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=587786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=587786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}