Richard Ureña Richard Ureña (ur-AY-nyuh) INFIELDER
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6-0
195
2/26/96
0.156
BORN: San Francisco de Macoris, DR RESIDES: San Francisco de Macoris, DR HIGH SCHOOL: COLLEGE: ACQUIRED: Selected by Baltimore off waivers from Toronto on 1/10/20 MLB DEBUT: For TOR on 9/1/17 vs BAL (1-for-1, double)
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CAREER HIGHS
HITS 5, 7/9/16 @ Fort Myers
RBI 5, 2x, last: 8/30/19 @ Scranton/WB
RUNS 4, 5/25/15 vs Fort Wayne
HOME RUNS 1, several times
STRIKEOUTS 4, 3x, last: 9/29/18 @ Tampa Bay
WALKS 3, 3x, last: 9/3/17 @ Baltimore
STOLEN BASES 2, 3x, last: 9/28/18 @ Tampa Bay
HITTING STREAK 25 games, 2014
PERSONAL
♦ Selected by Baltimore off of waivers from Toronto on 1/10/20. ♦ Originally signed by Toronto as an international free agent on 7/3/12. ♦ Born and resides in San Francisco de Macoris, the sixth-most populated city in the DR.
2019
♦ Made first career Opening Day roster. Batted .243 over 30 games and five stints with Toronto. ♦ Appeared in 98 games with Triple-A Buffalo, batting .274 with six homers and 52 RBI. ♦ Ranked among qualifying Buffalo team leaders in triples (T-2nd, 4), average (3rd, .274),
OBP (3rd, .314), hits (3rd, 101), doubles (4th, 18) and RBI (4th, 52). ♦ Registered 29 multi-hit games with Buffalo and three multi-hit contests with Toronto. ♦ Appeared at shortstop, second base, third base, left field and pitcher with Toronto. ♦ Made first pro pitching appearance on 8/20 at Dodger Stadium, allowing four runs. ♦ Doubled twice as part of a three-hit contest, 3/31 vs. Detroit. ♦ Batted .286 (14-49) in 16 games at Rogers Centre. ♦ Hit .340 (32-94) with two homers and 15 RBI in 23 day games with Buffalo. ♦ Batted .324 (34-105) with 43 RBI against IL pitchers with runners in scoring position. 2018 ♦ Appeared in a career-high 40 games with Toronto, batting .293 with 29 hits and six RBI. Played in 65 games with Triple-A Buffalo and seven games with Single-A Dunedin. ♦ Played in seven games with Dunedin in a rehab assignment, recovering from a intercostal strain. Made first appearances with Buffalo on 5/2. Was promoted to Toronto on 5/9. ♦ Recorded only Major League home run on 5/16 at New York-NL, a three-run home run. ♦ Made five different stints with Toronto throughout the season. ♦ Totaled 21 multi-hit games throughout the season (16 with Buffalo, four with Toronto). ♦ Registered first multi-stolen base game in the Majors on 9/28 at Tampa Bay. ♦ Finished with a .305 batting average (18-59) in 26 home games with Toronto. 2017 ♦ Spent most of the season with Double-A New Hampshire, batting .247 with 36 doubles, three triples, five home runs, 44 runs scored and 60 RBI for the Fisher Cats. ♦ Ranked among Toronto farmhands in extra-base hits (3rd, 44), RBI (T-5th, 60) & hits (6th, 126). ♦ Made MLB debut on 9/1 at Baltimore as a defensive replacement. Doubled off of Miguel Castro in the 12th inning for his first big league hit. Was first Toronto player to have an extra-base hit in first at-bat since JP Arencibia on 8/7/10 (home run). ♦ Hit first Major League home run, 9/8 vs. Detroit (off of RHP Alex Wilson). ♦ Set a Major League high with three walks, 9/2 at Baltimore. YR TEAM ORG 2013 Bluefield Blue Jays (R) TOR DSL Blue Jays (R) TOR 2014 Bluefield Blue Jays (R) TOR Vancouver Canadiens (A) TOR 2015 Lansing Lugnuts (A) TOR Dunedin Blue Jays (A) TOR 2016 New Hampshire Fisher Cats (AA) TOR Dunedin Blue Jays (A) TOR 2017 TORONTO BLUE JAYS (AL) TOR New Hampshire Fisher Cats (AA) TOR 2018 TORONTO BLUE JAYS (AL) TOR Buffalo Bisons (AAA) TOR Dunedin Blue Jays (A) TOR 2019 TORONTO BLUE JAYS (AL) TOR Buffalo Bisons (AAA) TOR Major league Totals Minor league Totals
AVG .333 .296 .318 .242 .266 .250 .266 .305 .206 .247 .293 .216 .148 .243 .274 .253 .270
G 7 64 53 9 91 30 30 97 21 129 40 65 7 30 98 91 680
AB 27 243 217 33 384 124 124 394 68 510 99 250 27 74 369 241 2702
R 3 45 35 3 62 9 14 52 6 44 10 28 2 4 43 20 340
H 9 72 69 8 102 31 33 120 14 126 29 54 4 18 101 61 729
2016
♦ Split season between Class-A Dunedin and Double-A New Hampshire. Combined to bat
.295 with 24 doubles, 12 triples, eight home runs and 59 RBI in 127 total games. ♦ Named a Postseason All-Star in the Florida State League after batting .305 with 120 hits in 97 games with Dunedin. Also named a Toronto Organizational All-Star by MiLB.com. ♦ His 12 triples in a season were the most by a Blue Jays minor leaguer since Sean Shoffit hit 13 triples for Class-A Lansing in 2007. ♦ Invited to Major League spring training for the first time to begin the season and added to the Blue Jay’s 40-man roster at the end of the campaign. ♦ Set a single-game record for New Hampshire with three triples in a game, 8/10 vs Bowie. ♦ Named the Blue Jays top prospect and ranked 91st on MLB’s Top 100 Prospects on 7/27. CAREER HIGHLIGHTS ♦ Split the 2015 season between Single-A Lansing and Single-A Dunedin. Combined to hit .262 with 16 doubles, five triples and 16 home runs over 121 games. ♦ Finished a triple short of the cycle on 5/25/15 vs Fort Wayne while setting a career-high with four runs scored in the contest. Also had two RBI in four at-bats. ♦ Named a Midwest League All-Star and an Organization All-Star by MiLB.com in 2015. ♦ Played most the 2014 season with Rookie-level Bluefield, batting .318 with 69 hits in 53 games in the Appalachian League. Also appeared in nine games with Class-A Vancouver. ♦ Named an Appalachian League Postseason All-Star after the 2014 season. ♦ Registered a carer-best 25-game hitting streak for Bluefield in 2014, a streak he capped off with a four-hit game on 8/2 at Bristol. ♦ Hit safely in first 21 of 22 games with the DSL Blue Jays in first professional season (2013).
RIcHaRD uREÑa has appeared in 91 games for Toronto over the last three seasons, batting .253 with 14 doubles and 14 RBI while playing five different defensive positions. (Tony Dejak/AP)
2B 2 19 15 2 13 3 6 18 4 36 4 11 0 6 18 14 143
3B 0 2 2 1 4 1 5 7 0 3 0 3 0 0 4 0 32
HR 0 1 2 0 15 1 0 8 1 5 1 5 0 0 6 2 43
RBI 3 35 20 5 58 8 18 41 4 60 6 29 2 4 52 14 331
NORFOLK TIDES | MEDIA GUIDE
BB 3 30 16 3 13 3 4 25 6 30 7 12 1 2 23 15 163
SO 6 43 51 5 84 26 19 64 28 100 32 48 6 23 85 83 537
SB 0 9 5 1 5 3 0 9 1 0 2 2 0 0 3 3 37
CS 0 5 4 0 5 1 2 6 0 1 1 3 0 0 2 1 29
OBP .400 .381 .363 .297 .289 .268 .282 .351 .270 .286 .340 .250 .172 .273 .314 .300 .311
SLG .407 .403 .433 .364 .438 .315 .395 .447 .309 .359 .364 .344 .148 .324 .393 .336 .394
OPS .807 .785 .796 .661 .726 .582 .678 .797 .579 .645 .703 .594 .321 .597 .707 .636 .705
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