Blue Jays catcher Alejandro Kirk agrees to 5-year extension: reports

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· Posted: Mar 23, 2025 12:13 PM EDT | Last Updated: 5 minutes ago

Toronto Blue Jays catcher Alejandro Kirk agreed to a five-year, $58-million US declaration hold with a $6 cardinal signing bonus, aggregate media outlets reported.

Kirk is owed to marque $4.6 cardinal this season. Per MLB.com, this hold volition bargain retired his last twelvemonth of arbitration successful 2026 and the 4 seasons that follow.

Kirk, 26, was owed to deed escaped bureau pursuing the 2026 season.

"Kirky has elite intelligence attributes. Elite," Blue Jays president and CEO Mark

Shapiro said. "He slows the crippled down arsenic good arsenic anybody I've seen. He reminds maine of different large players I've seen. There's astir cipher I tin ideate I'd privation to drawback a [wicked] slider successful the ninth inning with the tying tally connected 3rd basal oregon beryllium up astatine the plate. He's conscionable going to beryllium [steady]."

Kirk's relation arsenic the superior catcher was cemented erstwhile Danny Jansen was sent distant astatine past summer's commercialized deadline. Kirk batted. 253 successful 103 games past play with 5 homers and 54 runs batted in.

An all-star successful 2022, Kirk is hitting .264 with 36 homers and 187 RBI successful 434 vocation games with the Blue Jays.