{"id":825962,"date":"2026-07-27T01:05:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T01:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/825962\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T01:05:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T01:05:13","slug":"white-sox-acquire-jose-urquidy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/825962\/","title":{"rendered":"White Sox Acquire Jose Urquidy"},"content":{"rendered":"

The White Sox are set to acquire right-hander Jose Urquidy<\/a> from the Pirates, FanSided\u2019s Robert Murray<\/a> reports.\u00a0 Pittsburgh will receive minor league righty Felix Doroteo<\/a> in return, as per MLB.com\u2019s Mark Feinsand<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Urquidy has an 8.53 ERA over 6 1\/3 relief innings this season, and the righty hasn\u2019t pitched in a big league game since April 13.\u00a0 The Pirates signed Urquidy to a one-year, $1.5MM free agent deal in February, but his rough start earned him to a ticket to Triple-A, with Urquidy having to personally okay the demotion since he has over six years of MLB service time.<\/p>\n

The move to Triple-A Indianapolis saw Urquidy return to his usual starting role, and he has posted a 3.66 ERA, 22% strikeout rate, and 5.4% walk rate over 17 starts and 83 innings.\u00a0 It was a better K% and almost the same walk rate that Urquidy had in his brief stint in Pittsburgh, and it\u2019s worth noting that Urquidy\u2019s big-league ERA was inflated by such metrics as .519 BABIP and a 44.9% strand rate (on top of 6 1\/3 IP being just a small sample size).<\/p>\n

These improved results weren\u2019t enough to prevent the Pirates from designating Urquidy for assignment two days ago, and he\u2019ll now land on a White Sox team in need of rotation depth.\u00a0 The surprise AL Central leaders are fairly short on experience in their starting five, and with top prospect Noah Schultz<\/a> struggling in his first taste of the majors, Urquidy might be in line for a call-up in relatively short order.<\/p>\n

Of course, the White Sox could very well make a more prominent addition to their rotation at the trade deadline.\u00a0 Bringing in Urquidy and his barely $500K in remaining salary is a low-cost way of bolstering Chicago\u2019s pitching staff for this unexpected pennant race over the final two months of play.<\/p>\n

Urquidy knows all about high-pressure games from his days as a member of the Astros rotation, which included a World Series ring in 2022.\u00a0 Following that championship year, however, Urquidy was limited to 63 innings in 2023 due to shoulder problems, and a Tommy John surgery cost him almost all of the 2024-25 seasons \u2014 Urquidy\u2019s only MLB action last year consisted of two games and 2 1\/3 innings with the Tigers.<\/p>\n

Doroteo was an international signing for the White Sox in January 2025, and injuries kept the Dominican right-hander from starting his pro career until this season.\u00a0 The 21-year-old Doroteo has a 4.50 ERA, 29.6% strikeout rate, and 13.6% walk rate across 18 innings for the Pirates\u2019 Arizona Complex League team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The White Sox are set to acquire right-hander Jose Urquidy from the Pirates, FanSided\u2019s Robert Murray reports.\u00a0 Pittsburgh…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":825963,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,236674,591,85],"class_list":["post-825962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-jose-urquidy","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=825962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825962\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/825963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=825962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=825962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=825962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}