Isiah Kiner-Falefa has played a little more than half a season with the Blue Jays, but he says Toronto is home

Isiah Kiner-Falefa is home.

Sounds weird, given that the 30-year-old came to the Blue Jays as a free agent before last season and only played here for three months. He was injured , then sent to the Pittsburgh Pirates as part of the trade-deadline purge . But Kiner-Falefa is sincere in his feelings.

“I love this city,” he said in a conversation that can be heard on the Sept. 11 episode of “Deep Left Field,” the Star’s baseball podcast . “It means a lot that the organization trusts me and values me enough to bring me back for a second time.”

The utility player who has played every position but first base over his eight big-league seasons, winning a gold glove at third in 2020, never got a chance to say goodbye to his Jays teammates last year. He was on a rehab assignment in Buff