TORONTO -- Alejandro Kirk came like a myth.

We all marvel at him now, but in the beginning, he was only whispered of. Kirk was the stuff of fables and folk tales. Baseball tends to keep a seat open at its table for every shape and size, but he was the catcher who didn’t look like anyone else. That’s all anyone could talk about. Then, they learned he didn’t play like anyone else, either.

“Kirky’s a unicorn,” manager John Schneider says.

Even now, six seasons, two All-Star Games and a contract extension into his career, those close to Kirk struggle to explain him. Veteran teammates still shrug and smile.

Kirk is one of the great discoveries in Blue Jays history, hidden away in Tijuana, Mexico, until all of the right people ended up in just the right place at just the right time. He

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