Once a prospect on the rise in the Los Angeles Dodgers organization, Julio Urias had his career interrupted by shoulder surgery in June 2017. He didn’t return to the mound until the following July and the Dodgers kept him on a modest workload.
Urias remained on an innings limit last season but now appears poised to take a step forward as a full-time member of the starting rotation. “Short of something happening and changing this, I think we can put in pen Kenta and Julio,” president of baseball operations Andrew Friedman said at Dodgers FanFest.
“Julio has gotten to the point now where innings-wise, he is where Buehler was going into 2018.