{"id":495774,"date":"2025-12-26T19:00:20","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T23:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/leones-del-escogido-announce-the-incorporation-of-jose-urquidy\/"},"modified":"2025-12-26T19:00:20","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T23:00:20","slug":"leones-del-escogido-announce-the-incorporation-of-jose-urquidy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/sports\/baseball\/leones-del-escogido-announce-the-incorporation-of-jose-urquidy\/","title":{"rendered":"Leones del Escogido announce the incorporation of Jos\u00e9 Urquidy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>SANTO DOMINGO.\u2013<\/strong> The Leones del Escogido announced the hiring of right-handed pitcher <strong>Jos\u00e9 Urquidy<\/strong>, who will join the scarlet team for the postseason of the Dominican professional baseball tournament, the Baseball Operations management of the organization reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>You may be interested<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/ab.deultimominuto.net\/uncategorized\/gigantes-anuncian-rotacion-de-pitcheo-para-los-primeros-juegos-del-round-robin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">:Giants announce pitching rotation for the first games of the Round Robin<\/a>in<\/p>\n\n\nUrquidy, 30 years old, has <strong>six seasons of experience in the Major Leagues<\/strong>, where he pitched between 2019 and 2025, recording a record of <strong>27-16<\/strong>, an ERA of <strong>4.00<\/strong>, <strong>1.15 WHIP<\/strong> and <strong>329 strikeouts<\/strong> in <strong>407.1 innings<\/strong>, mainly with the Houston Astros.\n\nThe Mexican right-hander was part of the Houston team that won the <strong>2022 World Series<\/strong>, standing out with a solid performance against the Philadelphia Phillies by pitching <strong>three scoreless innings<\/strong>, allowing only one hit and striking out four batters in the Fall Classic.\n\n&#8220;The entry 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,&#8221; said general manager <strong>Carlos Pe\u00f1a<\/strong>.\n\nDuring the current fall-winter, Urquidy played with the <strong>Venados de Mazatl\u00e1n<\/strong> in the Mexican Pacific League, where he showed an excellent performance by registering <strong>1.09 ERA<\/strong>, <strong>0.84 WHIP<\/strong> and <strong>35 strikeouts<\/strong> in <strong>33.0 innings<\/strong>, with a record of <strong>3-1<\/strong> and a batting average allowed of <strong>.183<\/strong>.\n\nThe pitcher is expected to be part of the rotation of the <strong>17-time national champions<\/strong>, who will begin their participation in the Round Robin this <strong>Saturday, December 27<\/strong>, when they face the <strong>\u00c1guilas Cibae\u00f1as<\/strong> at <strong>5:00 in the afternoon<\/strong> at the Cibao stadium.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SANTO DOMINGO.\u2013 The Leones del Escogido announced the hiring of right-handed pitcher Jos\u00e9 Urquidy, who will join the scarlet team for the postseason of the Dominican professional baseball tournament, the Baseball Operations management of the organization reported. You may be interested:Giants announce pitching rotation for the first games of the Round Robinin Urquidy, 30 years [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":495775,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[35481],"tags":[611,40231,9098,40853],"class_list":["post-495774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-baseball","tag-deultimominuto","tag-dominican-republic","tag-lidom","tag-thetruthnewspaper"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-24Ym","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/12\/qcayxlj2d6mqmxp0d0ux.jpeg","dum_api":{"author_name":"Redacci\u00f3n De \u00daltimo Minuto","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/cropped-logo-de-ultimo-minuto-96x96.png","categories_name":["Baseball"],"featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdn.deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/12\/qcayxlj2d6mqmxp0d0ux.jpeg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=495774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495774\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/495775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=495774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}