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Message: [QUOTE="dbmill, post: 3453395, member: 2504"] Good to hear Justin Willis might be back soon. Willis has done very well pitching in summer ball, and it sounded like he was doing well in fall ball at UConn before his injury. With his return, potentially deep UConn bullpen gets potentially even deeper. Willis might become the right hand man to Caleb Wurster, so to speak. It certainly looks like Wurster has nailed down the closer spot, but I suspect Willis will get a lot of pitching time late in tight games as well. One thing I haven’t heard anything on is when David Langer might be back to play. I’m inclined to think his injury might have him on a week by week evaluation for a possible return to the lineup, but still it is always good to know what sort of timeframe your looking in terms of when a player might be available to play again. As for Nick Krauth, Coach Penders has been saying in recent interviews that he definitely knows how to pitch, and he knows how to compete. The implication from the interviews and such is that Krauth may not have the super stuff such as a big fastball that the scouts are looking for, but he knows how to move the ball around the zone and how to set up hitters with his pitches. To me he sounds like a souped up version of Jeff Kersten, which is not a bad thing at all to have as a Sunday starter. [/QUOTE]