{"id":588969,"date":"2026-04-07T22:50:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T22:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/588969\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T22:50:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T22:50:10","slug":"blue-jays-reveal-injury-timelines-for-kirk-ponce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/588969\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Jays reveal injury timelines for Kirk, Ponce"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ponce will have surgery on his ACL next week and is expected to miss at least six months, the team <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/bnicholsonsmith\/status\/2041610725529919653\" rel=\"nofollow\">told reporters<\/a> Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Kirk had a screw placed in his left thumb and is expected to miss at least <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/bnicholsonsmith\/status\/2041610563390750928\" rel=\"nofollow\">six weeks.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Kirk was injured in last Friday&#8217;s loss to the Chicago White Sox in the 10th inning when a foul tip clipped his catching hand behind the plate. Kirk&#8217;s thumb was dislocated on the play, as well, with the fracture coming near his knuckle.<\/p>\n<p>He was placed on the 10-day injured list last Saturday, and rookie backstop Brandon Valenzuela was recalled from triple-A Buffalo.<\/p>\n<p>Kirk was slashing .150\/.227\/.350 with one home run through his first five games of the season.<\/p>\n<p>Ponce was injured in his first start for the Blue Jays on March 30 when he fell to the ground chasing a ground ball against the Colorado Rockies and had to be carted off the field.<\/p>\n<p>The 31-year-old \u2014 signed to a $30-million, three-year contract during the off-season \u2014 was 2.1 innings into the game when he was hurt.<\/p>\n<p>Ponce was making his first major-league appearance since 2021 after pitching in Japan and South Korea the past four years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ponce will have surgery on his ACL next week and is expected to miss at least six months,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":588970,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-588969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588969","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=588969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588969\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/588970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=588969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=588969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=588969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}