OKLAHOMA CITY — I had the opportunity to catch up with Oklahoma City pitching coach Matt Herges, some of that conversation is going to be used in my daily reports as they will relate to the pitchers on the mound that day. However, here are the parts where we talked about Wilmer Font, Julio Urias and the importance of the OKC catching expertise is to their success. This interview has been slightly edited for clarity.
Where is Julio Urias at right now this season and his development?
“He’s talented enough to be there, to be in that rotation but we’ve still got to be careful, we’ve still got to be careful, we know that if we just said the reins are off just go be like everybody else, the risk of him getting hurt goes up just because of his age and the fact he throws the ball so violently hard, I mean he touched 97 a couple of times his last start.