2019 Lugnut Kirk makes Blue Jays Opening Day roster
22-year-old catcher Alejandro Kirk, who starred for the Lugnuts in 21 games to open the 2019 season and then jumped over Double-A and Triple-A to make his Major League debut last year with the Toronto Blue Jays, was informed on Sunday that he had made the Blue Jays' Opening Day
22-year-old catcher Alejandro Kirk, who starred for the Lugnuts in 21 games to open the 2019 season and then jumped over Double-A and Triple-A to make his Major League debut last year with the Toronto Blue Jays, was informed on Sunday that he had made the Blue Jays' Opening Day roster.
Kirk was one of a number of former Lugnuts to receive good news in the past few days. First baseman Rowdy Tellez (2014-2015 with the Nuts) and pitchers Tim Mayza (2015) and T.J. Zeuch (2016) also were told to rest easy because they had locked up spots with Toronto. The quartet joins catcher Danny Jansen (2015), infielders Bo Bichette (2017) and Vladimir Guerrero, Jr. (2017), super-utility Cavan Biggio (2016), outfielder Jonathan Davis (2015), and pitchers Ryan Borucki (2016) and Jordan Romano (2016) on the Jays' roster.
Toronto opens the season on April 1st against the New York Yankees.