He was the first teenage Dodger pitcher to throw 100 pitches in a game since Joe Moeller in 1962.
1970
At age 14, Urías met Los Angeles Dodgers scout Mike Brito, who had first scouted Fernando Valenzuela in the late 1970s.
1996
Julio César Urías Acosta (born August 12, 1996), nicknamed "El Culichi", is a Mexican professional baseball pitcher who is a free agent.
2005
At 19, he was the youngest starting pitcher to debut in the Majors since Félix Hernández in the 2005 season and the second youngest Dodgers starting pitcher to debut since 18-year-old Rex Barney in the 1943 season.
(Joe Moeller at 19 years and 55 days is the youngest LA Dodger starting pitcher).
Urias struggled in his debut, lasting only innings while allowing five hits, three runs and four walks.
He did strike out three, including the first batter he faced, Curtis Granderson.
He was optioned back to AAA after the game.
Three days later, he was returned to the active roster after starter Alex Wood went on the disabled list.
Urías made his second start on June 2 against the Chicago Cubs.
In 5 innings pitched, he gave up 6 runs (5 earned), including 3 home runs.
He allowed 8 hits, and struck out 4.
2012
The Los Angeles Dodgers signed him in 2012, and he made his Major League Baseball (MLB) debut in 2016.
Urías led the National League in wins in 2021 and earned run average in 2022.
He was named to the All-MLB Second Team in 2021 and 2022.
Urías is the son of Carlos Urías and Juana Isabel Acosta.
He played with the Mexico national youth team in his early teens.
In June 2012, the Dodgers discovered 15-year-old Urías at a showcase in Oaxaca, on the same scouting trip in Mexico on which they signed Yasiel Puig.
The Dodgers signed him on August 12, his 16th birthday.
The Dodgers paid a signing fee of US$450,000, most of which went to the Diablos Rojos del México of the Mexican League.
2013
Urías 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 made a total of 18 starts and finished the season 2–0 with a 2.48 ERA, recording 67 strikeouts in 54.1 innings.
2014
He spent 2014 with the Rancho Cucamonga Quakes of the California League.
In 25 appearances (20 of which were starts), he was 2–2 with a 2.36 ERA.
He struck out 109 batters while walking only 37.
Urías was selected to play for the World team at the 2014 All-Star Futures Game and was selected as the Dodgers organizational "Minor League Pitcher of the Year" for 2014.
2015
He received an invitation to attend the team's 2015 major league spring training camp.
After pitching in two games, for a total of two innings and a 4.50 ERA, he was the first to be cut from the roster and was reassigned to the team's minor league camp on March 14, 2015.
Urías was ranked by MLBpipeline.com as the top left-handed pitching prospect in all of baseball entering the 2015 season.
MLB.com ranked him the 8th-best prospect in baseball, and Baseball America named him the #10 prospect in 2015.
The Dodgers assigned him to the AA Tulsa Drillers of the Texas League to start the 2015 season.
He was 3–4 with a 2.77 ERA in 13 starts for Tulsa.
Urias was promoted to the AAA Oklahoma City Dodgers on August 31, 2015.
He struggled in his first AAA action, allowing nine runs in innings over two starts.
He also allowed six runs, including a grand slam homer, in just one inning in his one start in the Pacific Coast League playoffs.
He was again invited to attend Dodgers spring training.
He was assigned to AAA to begin the season, where he was 4–1 with a 1.10 ERA in seven starts.
He also had a 27-inning scoreless streak during May for Oklahoma City.
2016
Urías was promoted to the Los Angeles Dodgers to make his major league debut against the New York Mets on May 27, 2016.
He picked up his first major league win, against the Milwaukee Brewers, on June 28, 2016, when he allowed two runs on two hits in six innings.
