My Dark Star: Vince Velasquez

[Darnell's Son]

I have a Marciano-sized crush on Phillies starter Vince Velasquez and iayork wrote up a breakdown of his stuff today on the .com.

I'm not even sure how he knew I was a fan, I was pretty good at keeping it under wraps.

 

[santadevil]

I remember early in the year, seeing highlights of his game against San Diego where he struck out 16.
It was impressive watching those. I thought his pitches looked amazing and had a little something extra on them.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/PHI/PHI201604140.shtml

As mentioned and linked in the article.

 

[Darnell's Son]

Yeah, I think the biceps injury hindered him more than he let on and that messed up his season pretty bad like iayork alluded to. He has a bulldog mentality on the mound and likes to show off how tough he is. His first start of the year was in New York at the Mets and the wind chill was in the mid-30s, but he came out with short sleeves and pitched through it, striking out 9 over 6 scoreless innings. Hailing from California and pitching with the Astros organization, it was the coldest weather he had ever pitched in but it seemed like he didn't want to let it show.

Hopefully the Sox play the Phillies next year as this kid is fun to watch.

 

[Broda]

I said from the start Houston was not smart for including him in the Giles trade.

Especially when they needed SP themselves.