{"id":75128,"date":"2025-06-03T03:05:14","date_gmt":"2025-06-03T03:05:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/75128\/"},"modified":"2025-06-03T03:05:14","modified_gmt":"2025-06-03T03:05:14","slug":"jose-urena-elects-free-agency-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/75128\/","title":{"rendered":"Jose Urena Elects Free Agency"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jos\u00e9 Ure\u00f1a<\/a>\u00a0elected free agency, the Blue Jays told reporters (including Mitch Bannon<\/a> of The Athletic). Toronto designated the veteran righty for assignment on Saturday. He went unclaimed on waivers and had the service time to decline an outright.<\/p>\n

Ure\u00f1a spent less than a month with the Jays. Toronto signed him to a big league deal in early May. He made one spot start as the Jays were cycling through pitchers to fill the #5 rotation job. Ure\u00f1a made another two-inning start as a quasi-opener in front of\u00a0Eric Lauer<\/a>. He has otherwise been working in 1-2 inning stints as a low-leverage reliever.<\/p>\n

The 33-year-old Ure\u00f1a pitched 12 1\/3 innings. His five runs allowed are reasonable, but that came despite a 5:3 strikeout-to-walk ratio and three homers. It\u2019s tough to see that approach working long term, so the Jays pulled the plug over the weekend. Ure\u00f1a had an even briefer stint with the Mets earlier this year. New York carried him on the active roster for three days between late April and early May. He made one three-inning appearance as a Met.<\/p>\n

Ure\u00f1a figures to land another minor league contract. He has a long track record as a swingman over an MLB career that has spanned parts of 11 seasons. He managed 109 innings across 33 appearances (nine starts) with the Rangers last year, turning in a 3.80 ERA despite a below-average 15.1% strikeout rate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jos\u00e9 Ure\u00f1a\u00a0elected free agency, the Blue Jays told reporters (including Mitch Bannon of The Athletic). Toronto designated the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":75129,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[5,732,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-75128","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\/114617223156909822","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75128","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=75128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75128\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}