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José Urquidy

Mexican baseball player (born 1995)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 27, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

José Luis Hernández Urquidy is a Mexican professional baseball pitcher for the Philadelphia Phillies of Major League Baseball (MLB). He has previously played in MLB for the Houston Astros, Detroit Tigers, Pittsburgh Pirates, and Chicago White Sox. Urquidy signed with the Astros as an international free agent in 2015 under the name of José Luis Hernández, as he was known until the start of the 2019 season. He made his MLB debut in 2019.

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“José Urquidy” enters the record as mexican baseball player (born 1995). Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what José, Urquidy and Mexican can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2015, 2019—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around José, Urquidy and Mexican.
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“José Urquidy” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, José, Urquidy and Mexican provides the most credible route into that argument.

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The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 27, 2026. The first chronological checks are 2015 and 2019.

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This entry incorporates text from “José Urquidy” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.