{"id":2775,"date":"2025-05-03T13:55:08","date_gmt":"2025-05-03T13:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/2775\/"},"modified":"2025-05-03T13:55:08","modified_gmt":"2025-05-03T13:55:08","slug":"blue-jays-to-sign-jose-urena","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/2775\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Jays To Sign Jos\u00e9 Ure\u00f1a"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Blue Jays have agreed to a major league contract with right-hander <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/u\/urenajo01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-05-03_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Jos\u00e9 Ure\u00f1a<\/a>, reports <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/JonHeyman\/status\/1918657139624603701\" rel=\"nofollow\">Jon Heyman of the New York Post<\/a>. This signing comes on the heels of the news that Toronto has also <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mlbtraderumors.com\/2025\/05\/blue-jays-to-sign-spencer-turnbull.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">agreed to terms<\/a> with right-hander <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/t\/turnbsp01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-05-03_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Spencer Turnbull<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Ure\u00f1a, 33, signed a minor league contract with the Mets in February. While he failed to make the Opening Day roster out of camp, he made three starts at Triple-A Syracuse and earned a promotion when the Mets needed an extra arm in late April. However, he struggled badly in his one appearance, giving up five earned runs in three innings, and <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mlbtraderumors.com\/2025\/04\/mets-designate-jose-urena-for-assignment.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">the Mets DFA\u2019d him<\/a> two days later. The Blue Jays, desperate in need of pitching depth, pounced quickly, signing the righty less than two days after he elected free agency. Unlike Turnbull, who has not pitched in a game since a lone minor league rehab appearance last September,\u00a0Ure\u00f1a should be ready to contribute to the major league team right away.<\/p>\n<p>More to come\u2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Blue Jays have agreed to a major league contract with right-hander Jos\u00e9 Ure\u00f1a, reports Jon Heyman of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2776,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[5,732,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-2775","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-jose-urena","10":"tag-mlb"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/114444246942913507","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2775\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}