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Message: [QUOTE="dbmill, post: 3084425, member: 2504"] Coach Penders said in a recent postgame interview if that his team took a poll on who the best player on the team was, an honest result would produce Mike Woodworth. I concur with that opinion, Woodworth can play fabulous defense in both the outfield and infield, and he has been a fabulous offensive player as well so far this season. Anthony Prato isn’t too far behind Woodworth, another terrific player both on defense and offense. John Toppa took last summer off from summer ball took work on his swing, and so far the results have been very positive. Toppa is hitting for a higher average, more power, and getting on base more often. He is a much improved offensive player. Christian Fedko is another player who took the summer off from playing to work on his game, and while he is not hitting for as high an average as Toppa, Fedko is also hitting for a higher average, more power, and is a completely different player in his strike zone judgement, having already surpassed his walk total from last season. It’s great to see year to year improvement like that. Fedko is a better defensive player than last year, but Coach Penders still feels a need to have a defensive replacement for Fedko at 2B in late innings. That is a bit of a worry, since you never like to see this sort of thing happen in the middle infield. Still it is obvious that Fedko takes working on his game seriously, so hopefully he will continue to show more defensive improvement in the future. Freshmen Pat Winkel and Kyler Fedko are doing fine with the bat their freshman season. Kyler is also another Fedko who is willing to take a walk. I would think both players will be the cornerstones of the team in the field in a year or two. Defensively, UConn is well above average at four positions: center field (or wherever Woodworth happens to be playing), shortstop, first base, and catcher (both Winkel and Gozzo). I’m not going to include 3B, not with the merry go round going on with that position at this time. [/QUOTE]

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