System Sundays: Scouting Ramon Urias

A couple weeks ago, after John Sickels had put up his Cardinal prospect list for the year, a commenter asking about Ramon Urias put me in mind to write him up. I didn’t include Urias on the big list this year due to temporal issues; namely, he wasn’t yet in the system when I was writing that.

First, the vitals. Urias is currently 23 years old, and was signed out of the Mexican League in January. He is, in fact, the older brother of Luis Urias, the ultra-talented middle infield prospect in the Padres’ system. Urias the elder is listed at 5’10”, 150 lbs, but I have it on reasonable authority that number is left over from his days as a Texas Ranger prospect back in 2011 and ‘12, and he’s…