TEMPE, Ariz. -- It all happened way too fast. One minute, Deolis Guerra was experiencing discomfort while breathing. The next, he was being airlifted to a Tampa hospital for life-threatening surgery to repair a blood clot. This was 2013. Guerra didn't know if he was going to live, let alone pitch. It changed him.
"A lot," Guerra, in Angels camp looking to lock down a bullpen job, said in Spanish. "It changed my mentality a lot. When you feel like you can die, you start to value what you have a lot more. You value life a lot more.