The 2023 WBC Star player’s movie resume Vol.28:Jose Urquidy (Houston Astros): Major Candidate for Team Mexico: “Young Mexican seasoned pitcher!”

Today's player's resume concerns the Houston Astros' starting pitcher, Jose Urquidy. He is from Mexico and intents to play for Team Mexico in the following spring's World Baseball Classic.


Urquidy had a contract with the Astros as an international free agent in 2015 and debuted in a big-league game against the Colorado Rockies as a starter on July 2nd, 2019.


In 2020, the shortened season because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the right-handed pitcher started five games and went 1-1 with a 2.73 ERA, striking out 17 batters through 29.3 frames.


In 2021, the 27-year-old pitcher was 8-3 with a 3.62 ERA in his 20 starts covering 107.0 innings, fanning 90.


In 2022, Urquidy tossed in 29 contests with 164.1 innings and marked 13-8 with a 3.94, getting 134 strikeouts. A day after the Astros' three pitchers combined no-hitter against the New York Yankees, he pitched 6 1/3 hitless innings until the Yanks' slugger Giancarlo Stanton's homer on June 25th, by which the Yankees' hitless drought ended at 16 1/3 innings.
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The KAISPO Baseball analyst commented, "Urquidy's arm swing is small, so his velocity is not so fast, but his small and smooth pitching form gives him a good command. He also can throw a sharp ball by putting a snap at a stroke on a ball at the moment to release the ball. He is still young, but his pitching is seasoned."
(MLB No.288 KAISPO No.1469)