TORONTO -- Josh Naylor was right at home for his big league debut, literally and figuratively.

The 21-year-old slugger from Mississauga, Ontario, had played more than a dozen games at Rogers Centre before he even delved into the professional realm, suiting up in the red-and-white uniform for the Canadian Junior National Team and representing his home province at Toronto’s annual amateur showcase, Tournament 12, at the big league ballpark.

“I think that’s why I’m not really experiencing any nervousness or heavy legs or anything like that,” said San Diego’s No. 9 prospect, who was promoted on Friday and played in all three weekend games against the Blue Jays. “I’m really calm and relaxed here. Maybe it will hit me in New York [as the Padres continue their road trip] because I won’t be as comfy. But playing here, I feel just fine.”

Though the surroundings were familiar for Naylor’s first weekend in the Majors -- over which he went 3-for-14 with a double and two RBIs in three games -- his parents Chris and Jenice were in uncharted territory emotionally.

“We’ve been here so many times, and this time feels completely different,” Jenice Naylor said. “He’s playing for another team, and because it’s a whole different level. I feel pressure for him, but I feel excitement for him at the same time.

“He’s made it where he’s always dreamed of being. The pride, the work and the culmination of everything makes it different, and it’s so exciting.”

The last time Jenice had seen her oldest son -- Josh is brother to 19-year-old Noah “Bo” Naylor, the Indians’ No. 4 prospect, and to Myles, 14 -- play in a game at Rogers Centre was also an emotional time, but for a different reason.

In September 2014, Naylor arrived at the stadium for Tournament 12, after being stranded in Mexico with Team Canada when Hurricane Odile interrupted the 18U Pan American championship tournament. The squad was left without running water, electricity and any means of communication.

“We were all just kind of in shock,” Naylor said at the time, after the team was transported by military cargo plane from Tijuana to Los Angeles, before flying all the way home. “We all looked at each other and we kind of knew that we were going to be savages for the next few days.”

“It wasn’t anything different for him to come off that plane from Mexico and come and play baseball,” Jenice Naylor said. “And seeing him here now, it’s the same thing. He’s always go, go, go. ‘I’m here, I want to play, I want to help the team.’ He’s always been known as the Tasmanian devil of the family.”

Naylor brought that all-in mentality to the Padres when he joined the organization at the Trade Deadline in 2016. Dabbling in the outfield as a member of Canada’s Junior National Team, the left-handed-hitting slugger has embraced his opportunity to play the position with San Diego, learning along the way.

“Reading the balls off the left-handed batter when they don’t completely get it all the way and it kind of tails the other way -- I struggled with that a little bit at first,” he said. “But I’m obviously getting more used to it now and I feel a lot more comfortable on both left and right now. It’s just taking every day one at a time and seizing the opportunities that you get, and keep practicing and keep working.”

Being given the chance to get that work in at the Major League level just down the road from his parents’ home -- and to suit up alongside Padres No. 10 prospect and Port Hope, Ontario, native Cal Quantrill -- Naylor was grateful that his debut could draw a little bit more attention to baseball in his home country.

“Obviously baseball is growing in Canada, and I’m just very thankful to be a part of it,” he said. “I want to kind of show the road to those younger guys and be that person they can look up to. … I try my hardest to play the game hard, the way I was always taught to, and represent Canada every way I can, and my family every way I can, in a good way.”

The young slugger received his call up the Majors after hitting .299/.378/.538 at Triple-A El Paso, with 10 home runs, 14 doubles and 35 RBIs in 45 games. Over five Minor League seasons, Naylor slashed .285/.349/.436 with 50 home runs, 94 doubles, six triples and 264 RBIs in 434 games.

“When you go through that journey with somebody, for us it seems long,” Jenice Naylor said. “But it’s come relatively quicker than a lot of people would expect. Josh has always had aspirations, and nothing is ever good enough until he meets each and every goal, so for us, we knew he wanted to be at this level at this time, and he worked so hard to get here. He is where he should be.”