Vincent Velasquez

The Philadelphia Phillies had to remove starting pitcher Vincent Velasquez on Wednesday with what is being diagnosed as a right elbow flexor strain.

Another night, another short outing for Vincent Velazquez.

Jake Thompson getting the start Saturday is another example of the Phillies' depth of pitching in their organization.  With Vincent Velasquez, Jared Eickoff, and now Thompson at the Major League level, Aaron Nola on the DL, and several pitchers in the Minor Leagues, the future looks bright for the Phillies with their pitching...

The Phillies will get a boost to their starting rotation, activating right-hander Vincent Velasquez, who will get the start Monday night in Arizona.

Phillies pitcher Vincent Velasquez will make a minor league rehab start Wednesday with Double-A Reading.

As the Major League Baseball season closes in on the All-Star break, the Phillies are still some-what of a surprise.

On Wednesday Phillies starter Vincent Velasquez was pulled from the game after two Fastball clocked at 87 MPH.  This happened following Velasquez telling the training staff that the Biceps muscle in his throwing arm was tweaked during his warm up throwing session before the game...

While the Phillies have dropped 13 of their past 17 games to fall to two games under .500 there's still some positives to take from their first 58 games of the season, and are still a organization that is moving in the right direction.

Vincent Velasquez has been one of the young pitchers that has been pointed to as the future of the Phillies pitching rotation.  But since his 16 strikeouts performance on April 14th, Velasquez has averaged 9 strikeouts per nine innings pitched over his last eight starts...

The average age of the Phillies starting staff is 25 years old with Aaron Nola and Vincent Velasquez both being under the age of 24.  The quandary of young pitching staffs is their inexperience at pitching a long season.  We have seen teams like the Nationals put an innings limit on Stephen Strasburg while the Mets managed the innings of Matt Harvey and Jacob DeGrom...