Richard Ureña
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| Toronto Blue Jays – No. 15 | |||
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Born: February 26, 1996 San Francisco de Macorís, Duarte, Dominican Republic |
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Richard Ureña Castillo (born February 26, 1996) is a Dominican professional baseball shortstop in the Toronto Blue Jays organization. He is ranked 4th on Major League Baseball's 2017 Top 30 Blue Jays prospects list, and 85th on the Top 100 MLB prospects list.
Ureña was signed as an international free agent by the Blue Jays for $725,000 in 2012, and played his first professional season split between the Dominican Summer League Blue Jays and Gulf Coast League Blue Jays. In 64 games with the DSL Blue Jays, he batted .296 with one home run and 35 runs batted in (RBI). He then played seven games in the Gulf Coast League, batting .333 with three RBI. Ureña was promoted to the Rookie Advanced Bluefield Blue Jays of the Appalachian League for the start of the 2014 season, and recorded a 28-game streak of reaching base safely. In 53 games, he hit .318 with two home runs and 20 RBI before he was promoted to the Short Season-A Vancouver Canadians on August 21. Ureña appeared in nine games for Vancouver, batting .242 with five RBI. On September 24, Urena was named the Most Valuable Player for Bluefield in 2014. He began the 2015 season with the Class-A Lansing Lugnuts. On June 5, Ureña was named a Midwest League midseason All-Star. At that time, he led the Lugnuts with seven home runs, and had 35 RBI. Ureña was called up to the Advanced-A Dunedin Blue Jays in early July, and played 30 games there before returning to Lansing. In 121 games played, he batted .262 with 16 home runs and 66 RBI. In the offseason, he appeared in 33 games with the Gigantes del Cibao of the Dominican Winter League. Batting against pitchers that were over seven years of age older than him on average, Ureña hit .258 with five RBI.
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