Sacramento State product Pat Jurado looked to extend his playing career to the pros in June 1990 and headed to a tryout for the independent Salt Lake City Trappers, The Salt Lake Tribune wrote.
It took the team a few weeks, but eventually they called and he was on a plane to Utah, The Tribune wrote.
"I did fairly well" at the tryout, Jurado told The Tribune. "(The Trappers) said some positive things, but they said the same things to the other guys, so I really didn't expect to hear from them."
Eventually, he did. And later, he heard from the Expos as he moved to their system. His pro career ended up lasting two seasons. He made single-A.
Jurado's career began that year in 1990, signed by the Trappers as an undrafted free agent out of Sacramento State.
At Sacramento State, Jurado gave up one earned run in six innings of an early-season 1989 game, where the temperature didn't make it out of the 40s, The Sacramento Bee wrote.
"Me and this weather don't get along," Jurado told The Bee then. "With the rain, it's been two weeks since I pitched to a batter. That makes it difficult. But I'm encouraged. If I pitched this well when it's cold, I'm looking forward to when the warm weather gets here."
Jurado played his season with the Trappers as a reliever. He ended up getting into 13 games. He won three and saved seven. He also ended with a 0.83 ERA.
By that September, his contract had been purchased by the Expos and he thought he had good enough stuff to go higher, he told his hometown Tulare Advance-Register.
"It's just a matter of going through the steps and rolling with the punches ...," Jurado told The Advance-Register. "I want to show that I can do well against those guys (at spring training). I don't want to be intimidated."
Jurado played 1991 with the Expos at single-A Rockford. He saw 21 games, started one. He went 0-4, with a 3.95 ERA and two saves. That season proved his last as a pro.
- Sacramento Bee, Feb. 11, 1989: Sac State squeezes past Chico State 6-2
- Salt Lake Tribune, Aug. 20, 1990: Jurado Helps Trappers Regain First Place
- Tulare Advance-Register, Sept. 14, 1990: Jurado
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