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Starlin Castro found out the hard way just how unreal Julio Urias' pickoff move is

What did you do when you were 20? Maybe you were in college. Maybe you had a job. Maybe you started a family.
Dodgers left-hander Julio Urías just turned 20 last month and is a key contributor to the club's pitching staff after rocketing through the Minor Leagues. In Tuesday night's 3-0 loss to the Yankees at Yankee Stadium, Urias showed off one of his particularly impressive talents: an absolute laser of a pickoff move
He basically flicked his wrist and nabbed Starlin Castro off the first-base bag with a strike into Adrián González's glove (a call that was confirmed after replay): 

That's pretty amazing, really, getting that much velocity on a throw like that. Gonzalez wasn't too surprised by it, though, as he told MLB.com's Daniel Knobler after the game: 
"I've seen it from him before. I called for it, and I knew we had a shot if he did it right. And he did."
For Urias, it's nothing new ... considering he now leads all MLB pitchers in pickoffs: 

And did we mention Tuesday's game was just his 14th start of the season and his career? 
Mercy. 

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