A 2015 international amateur signing for $50,000, Frías was originally signed as a 3B, according to his MLB’s transaction page.
But the player himself, in the linked interview above, tells that he was signed as a pitcher. Whatever the exact reason, he bought a house for his mother, a nice bed and some furniture before he started throwing in the DOSL in 2016. He didn’t take the field in 2017 because of a scaphoid fracture of the wrist.
“Symptoms of a scaphoid fracture typically include pain and tenderness in the area just below the base of the thumb.