Julio Urías

Julio Urías

Julio César Urías Acosta is a Mexican professional baseball pitcher for the Los Angeles Dodgers of Major League Baseball. At 19, he was the youngest starting pitcher to debut in the Majors since Félix Hernández in the 2005 season. He was ranked by MLBpipeline. com as the top left-handed pitching prospect in all of baseball entering the 2015 season.

About Julio Urías in brief

Summary Julio UríasJulio César Urías Acosta is a Mexican professional baseball pitcher for the Los Angeles Dodgers of Major League Baseball. The Dodgers signed him in 2012, and he made his MLB debut in 2016. At 19, he was the youngest starting pitcher to debut in the Majors since Félix Hernández in the 2005 season and the youngest Dodgers starting pitcher since 18-year-old Rex Barney in the 1943 season. He was ranked by MLBpipeline. com as the top left-handed pitching prospect in all of baseball entering the 2015 season. At 20 years, 62 days, he became the youngest pitcher ever to pitch in the post-season. He led the Dodgers to the National League Division Series, picking up the win against the Milwaukee Brewers on June 28, 2016. He is the first pitcher to throw 100 pitches in a game since Joe Moeller in 1962. He has been named the Dodgers organizational \”Minor League Pitcher of the Year\” for 2014.

He also played for the World team at the 2014 All-Star Futures Game and was selected to play for the 2014 World Team at the All-star Game in New York City. He played with the Mexico national youth team in his early teens, and was scouted by the Dodgers when he was 15 years old. He made his professional debut on May 25, 2013, for the Great Lakes Loons in the Midwest League as the youngest player in the league, striking out six batters over three shutout innings. He spent 2014 with the Rancho Cucamonga Quakes of the California League. In 25 appearances, he was 2–2 with a 2. 36 ERA. He pitched in 18 games for the Dodgers, 15 of them in the playoffs, with a 3.2 ERA, 84 strikeouts and 31 walks, with six pickoffs, with 6 games in the leagues in pickoffs. In the 2016 World Series, he pitched two innings of five innings of the five-game series against the Chicago Cubs.