The Houston Astros’ knack for finding Latin American pitchers who had been passed over as teens has been a key to the team’s ability to reach a fourth World Series in six years
HOUSTON—On a quiet recent afternoon in the Bronx, an important baseball game just hours away, Houston Astros right-hander Jose Urquidy was in the bullpen, taming a curveball that has a tendency to go its own way. One after another, the pitch wasn’t quite right, this time too short, this time too loopy, this time unfamiliar off his fingers.
He said nothing and kept throwing curveballs. Snap. Snap. Snap. The perfect one was in there somewhere, he knew, because he had thrown enough of those, too. Framber Valdez, a left-hander for the Astros, watched from nearby. Finally he said, “Jose.”
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