Julio Urías, the former Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher who waylaid his career with a pair of domestic-violence incidents, has been suspended through the 2025 All-Star break, Major League Baseball announced Friday.
Urías, 28, last pitched in the major leagues on Sept. 1, 2023. Two days later, he attacked his wife in the parking lot of a professional soccer game in Los Angeles and charged with five misdemeanors the following April.
He eventually pleaded no contest to the charges in May 2024 and was placed on three years’ probation and agreed to complete 30 days of community labor and a one-year domestic violence course, according to the Los Angeles City Attorney’s Office. Urías was also ordered not to possess any weapons or use force and violence, pay restitution to the victim and abide by a protective order.
MLB announced then that it was still investigating the incident, which was captured on video. Urías was placed on administrative leave in September 2023 and became a free agent after the season. By the time his suspension is served, most major league teams will have played up to 98 games this season.
This is Urías’s second suspension under MLB’s Joint Domestic Violence, Sexual Assault and Child Abuse Policy, the first player to be disciplined on multiple occasions under the policy. He served a 20-game ban in 2019 after he was arrested on suspension of domestic battery after an incident in a mall parking structure. He was not prosecuted by the city attorney on the condition he complete a 52-week domestic violence counseling program.
‘Having reviewed all of the available evidence, I have concluded that Mr. Urías violated our Policy and that discipline is appropriate,’ commissioner Rob Manfred said in a statement Friday.
Urías signed with the Dodgers as a 16-year-old out of Mexico and made his major league debut at 19 in 2016. He recorded the final seven outs of their World Series championship in 2020, and won 21 games in 2021 and 17 more in 2022.
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