MIAMI — The Hialeah Kid has become one of the players he grew up watching.

Now, Nestor Cortes will get to pitch in his home city for the first time as a professional, and the next generation of kids from Hialeah will be there to watch him.

Cortes is set to start Saturday’s game against the Marlins for the Yankees at loanDepot Park. It will be a long-awaited homecoming of sorts for the 28-year-old, who grew up a diehard Marlins fan about 30 minutes south of their old stomping grounds at Sun Life Stadium.

“It’s gonna be fun,” Cortes said this week. “Hopefully there’s a lot of ticket requests for when I pitch. Just going back to when [fellow Hialieah product] Gio Gonzalez was with the Nationals and he would go to Miami every year, as a high schooler growing up, watching your hometown hero pitch, hopefully I can have that impact.