page_title: Virgil Vasquez
section_title: Pittsburgh Pirates
hierarchical_section_title: Virgil Vasquez / Pittsburgh Pirates
caption_attribution_description: Erik Kratz (left) and Virgil Vasquez
context_page_description: Virgil Matthew Vasquez is currently a professional pitching coach for the Minnesota Twins and a former right-handed professional baseball pitcher. He completed a 12-year professional pitching career with 5 different MLB organizations while appearing in parts of two Major League Baseball seasons with the Detroit Tigers and Pittsburgh Pirates. In total, he has a 101-92 record in his 12 years as a professional pitcher. During 2019 he will serve as the pitching coach of the Fort Myers Mighty Mussels.
context_section_description: After spending all of 2008 in Toledo, he was claimed off waivers by the Boston Red Sox. Two months later, he was claimed off waivers by the San Diego Padres, followed by a third waiver claim by the Pittsburgh Pirates two weeks after that.
  He began the 2009 season with the triple A Indianapolis Indians before earning a promotion to the Pirates major league roster on June 26, 2009. He won his first start against the Kansas City Royals, allowing two runs in six innings while striking out seven.
  In seven starts and fourteen appearances with the Pirates he amassed a 2-5 record, with a 5.84 ERA, gave up 58 hits, allowed 29 earned runs, gave up 6 home runs, hit 3 batters, walked 18 batters, struck out 29, in 44.2 innings pitched.
  He was traded to the Tampa Bay Rays on April 1, 2010. On April 23, he suffered two broken wrists in a vehicle accident, when the scooter he was driving was hit by a car. After which, he began a vigorous rebuild program, to not only return to his original capabilities, but to add to his repertoire a high speed cutter, movement and command to his fastball, and a curve which it seems he can throw anytime in the count.
  He signed a minor league contract with the Los Angeles Angels in January 2011 but was released in April before he pitched in the organization. He spent the 2011 and 2012 seasons with the Southern Maryland Blue Crabs of the Atlantic League of Professional Baseball.
caption: Vasquez (Right) with Erik Kratz in 2009
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