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Message: [QUOTE="dbmill, post: 3426340, member: 2504"] D1Baseball.com is out with their AAC preview. UConn is picked to finish third, and not make the NCAA tourney this season. There is some good UConn info in this piece. [URL unfurl="true"]https://d1baseball.com/season-preview/2020-american-athletic-conference-preview-pirates-seek-repeat/[/URL] The following selection pretty much sums up what I have been thinking about Uconn baseball for this coming season >The Huskies closed a very successful decade with six regional trips in 10 years, establishing themselves as the clear-cut power in the Northeast. To keep that run going, UConn will need some unproven players to mature quickly, after losing mainstays Anthony Prato, Mason Feole, Jacob Wallace, John Toppa, Michael Woodworth, Jeff Kersten and CJ Dandenau from last year’s team.< Interesting summary of the starting pitching: >UConn feels good about its depth on the mound, though it lacks a proven ace in the Feole mold. Junior righty Colby Dunlop is a converted shortstop with a quick arm that generates 88-94 mph heat with good movement as well as a swing-and-miss breaking ball and quality changeup, and the Huskies need him to take another step forward with his command to anchor the rotation. Junior righty Joe Simeone is an aggressive strike-thrower with an 88-91 fastball and a putaway slider, and the coaches love what they saw from him in the fall, making him the likely Saturday starter. Juco transfer RHP Nick Krauth (a polished three-pitch bulldog whose high-80s heater plays up because of his deception) and intriguing sophomore RHP Jimmy Wang figure to compete for weekend starts as well. A 6-foot-3, 208-pound righty who showed up on campus as an unknown actuarial science student from Beijing by way of Michigan, Wang has made big strides since last spring, flashing 95 mph heat and the ability to spin a nice slurve at 78-80.< This article also says a number of UConn freshmen on the pitching staff have bright futures. AAC Impact freshmen 2. Reggie Crawford 13. Max Nielsen 19. Andrew Marrero 26. Todd Petersen 30. Patrick Gallagher AAC 2020 draft top prospects 14. Colby Dunlop 16. Caleb Wurster 26. Jimmy Wang 30. Chris Winkel 34. Christian Fedko 47. Ben Casparius (no decision yet on eligibility for the coming season) 50. Joe Simeone AAC 2021 draft top prospects 3. Patrick Winkel 9. Kyler Fedko [/QUOTE]

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