Vince Velasquez is a pitcher who has dealt with a lot of injuries in the past.
He underwent Tommy John surgery back in 2010, which knocked him out baseball for two years, he spent time on the disabled list in 2016 because of a biceps strain, and he hit the DL twice last season — first in May with a right elbow flexor strain — then a few weeks later when he felt numbness in the middle finger of his pitching hand.
Those injuries were the main reasons why he made just 15 starts last year, with a 5.