Happy Birthday - 6/7

RHP Vincent Velasquez (21)
Velasquez was drafted by Houston in the second round in 2010 out of high school in California. Velasquez made nine starts in Tri-City in 2012 after coming back from Tommy John surgery, going 4-1 with a 3.35 ERA and a 1.182 WHIP. This season Velasquez has made 14 appearances at Quad Cities with a 4-2 record, a 4.50 ERA and a 1.321 WHIP.

C Jobduan Morales (22)
Obtained in a trade with the Marlins for Justin Ruggiano in May 2012, Morales has hit .207.309./293 in his first 26 games for Tri-City this season and has a 30% caught stealing percentage during that time frame.

C Oliver Toribio (17)
Toribio was signed out of the Dominican Republic in late 2012. He has been assigned to the DSL Astros but has not played yet. Here is some additional information on Toribio from when he signed.

One former Astro with a birthday today ~

1B Roberto Petagine (42)
Originally signed as a NDFA out of Venezuela by the Astros in 1990, Petagine only played in eight games for Houston in 1994 (eight plate appearances and no hits), but he went on to play in a sporadic 242 games in the major leagues with a six season gap between 1998 and 2005, and had a career major league batting average of .227. In addition to his major league stints, Petagine played 20 seasons of minor league and foreign league ball, hitting .309/.418/.522. He appears to have finally hung up the spikes after one final season in the Japanese Pacific League in 2010.