Know Your Orioles 40-man: Ramón Urías

This article is part of the Know Your Orioles 40-man series, which features an article about each of the 38 players currently on the Orioles roster. There will be one every weekday until we run out of players.

Ramón Urías was one of the best players on the Orioles a season ago, and he—not Ryan Mountcastle—was the team’s premier rookie. The former waiver claim has positioned himself to take on an everyday role in 2022, but he may need to keep defying expectations to make that happen.

Urías came to the Orioles on February 11, 2020 as a waiver claim from the St. Louis Cardinals. He had spent time at Triple-A in both the 2018 and ‘19 seasons. Before that, Urías was playing his ball back in his…