{"id":98270,"date":"2025-12-26T19:01:44","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T23:01:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/leones-del-escogido-sign-jose-urquidy-to-bolster-their-rotation\/"},"modified":"2025-12-26T19:01:44","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T23:01:44","slug":"leones-del-escogido-sign-jose-urquidy-to-bolster-their-rotation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/nationals\/leones-del-escogido-sign-jose-urquidy-to-bolster-their-rotation\/","title":{"rendered":"Leones del Escogido Sign Jos\u00e9 Urquidy to Bolster Their Rotation"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Escogido Bolsters Rotation with Jos\u00e9 Urquidy for the Postseason<\/h2>\n\nThe Leones del Escogido have announced the incorporation of right-handed pitcher Jos\u00e9 Urquidy to strengthen their team for the postseason of the Dominican professional baseball tournament, according to the Baseball Operations management of the organization.\n\nUrquidy, aged 30, joins the scarlet team with an outstanding career in the Major Leagues.\n\nThe Mexican pitcher accumulated six seasons of experience in the Majors, pitching between 2019 and 2025. His record is 27-16, with an ERA of 4.00, a WHIP of 1.15 and a total of 329 strikeouts in 407.1 innings, mainly with the Houston Astros.\n\nA high point in his career was his participation in the 2022 World Series, where he was part of the Houston team that was crowned champion. In that tournament, Urquidy had an outstanding performance against the Philadelphia Phillies, pitching three scoreless innings, allowing only one hit and striking out four batters.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n\n<p>\u201cThe arrival of Urquidy gives us a proven pitcher with experience in high-demand scenarios. His control, maturity, and knowledge of the game strengthen our rotation from the start of the Round Robin, and we trust that he will be a key piece,\u201d said general manager Carlos Pe\u00f1a.<\/p>\n\n<cite>Carlos Pe\u00f1a<\/cite>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\nIn the recent fall-winter season, Urquidy played with the Venados de Mazatl\u00e1n in the Mexican Pacific League. There, he demonstrated an excellent performance, recording an ERA of 1.09, a WHIP of 0.84, and 35 strikeouts in 33.0 innings. His record was 3-1, with an allowed batting average of .183.\n\nUrquidy is expected to be part of the Leones del Escogido&#8217;s rotation, a team that will begin its participation in the Round Robin this Saturday, December 27, facing the \u00c1guilas Cibae\u00f1as at 5:00 in the afternoon at the Cibao stadium.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Escogido Bolsters Rotation with Jos\u00e9 Urquidy for the Postseason The Leones del Escogido have announced the incorporation of right-handed pitcher Jos\u00e9 Urquidy to strengthen their team for the postseason of the Dominican professional baseball tournament, according to the Baseball Operations management of the organization. Urquidy, aged 30, joins the scarlet team with an outstanding career [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":98271,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[997],"tags":[88,8654,888,11085],"class_list":{"0":"post-98270","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nationals","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-jose-urquidy","10":"tag-lions","11":"tag-round-robin"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98270\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}