Coddled (and injured) early in his career, the often-overshadowed lefty is now a Cy Young Award candidate who will take the ball for Game 1 of their National League Division Series against the Padr…
LOS ANGELES — Julio Urias has become the front-of-the-rotation, elite starter the Dodgers envisioned when they signed him on his 16th birthday and sent him to the mound in a major league game as a 19-year-old.
“We felt good about the fact that he was in the best hands possible with Dr. ElAttrache,” Dodgers president of baseball operations Andrew Friedman said. “But so much of the success from that surgery stems from the rehab. Not having seen him go through that before, that was a question. But watching the way he dominated that process gave us real confidence that he would be able to come back. To see what he’s done subsequently really speaks to the commitment to his craft that he possesses.
“I felt ’20, how he stepped up in the postseason, was kind of a coming-out party and it’s carried over into ’21 and ’22,” Friedman said. “You can’t ask more from a guy who does everything he can to take the ball every fifth day and will do anything and everything to help the team win as evidenced in 2020. And he has been remarkably consistent – which is the ultimate compliment for a starting pitcher, especially an upper-echelon one.
But he hasn’t been chosen for an All-Star Game and will probably be overshadowed by Miami Marlins right-hander Sandy Alcantara in this year’s Cy Young voting.“I think, for me, there’s a little bit that he’s been slighted by the industry. So I think there’s something in there, that competitor in you that wants to prove everyone wrong,” Roberts said.
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