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This is huge! This team is going to be great!! Going to be very successful in the Big East for years to come!
 


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>> And Casparius, a two-way player who will be mostly concentrating on pitching, will be returning to a team that should be loaded. Casparius was at the driving range with Orange’s Pat and Chris Winkel recently, and he noted that Chris Winkel intends to return as a fifth-year senior (something all senior athletes are allowed to do after the 2020 season was wiped out by COVID-19).

With the Winkel brothers, the Fedko brothers (Christian and Kyler), rising sophomore stud Reggie Crawford and others coming back, Casparius believes the Huskies are good enough to reach that elusive College World Series in Omaha next spring.<<
 
A big wow indeed. Coach Penders has really been talking Casparius up, so this will certainly raise expectations. If you go by the interviews earlier this year, the coaching staff is high on Jimmy Wang's potential as well. Having Chris Winkel and Christian Fedko back as well would just add to all this very nicely.
 
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dbmill said:
A big wow indeed. Coach Penders has really been talking Casparius up, so this will certainly raise expectations. If you go by the interviews earlier this year, the coaching staff is high on Jimmy Wang's potential as well. Having Chris Winkel and Christian Fedko back as well would just add to all this very nicely.
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If Wang is as good as the coaches suggest, then we only need one more starter. Dunlop and Simeone redemption tour, or will one of our blue chip pitchers (Ziegler, Siravo) break the rotation as a freshman?
 
If he is our #1 starter, the team is stacked. With the caveat that, with an extra year of eligibility available, a lot of teams will be better than usual.

A rotation of Casparius, then Wang, Simeone, Dunlop, Gallagher, and the true frosh. A bullpen lead by Cody, Willis, and if he's back Haus. A lineup that includes both Winkels, both Fedkos, Crawford, and Stock. Wow.

A team is very different if it has a good #1 starter than if it doesn't. This is huge.
 
businesslawyer said:
If he is our #1 starter, the team is stacked. With the caveat that, with an extra year of eligibility available, a lot of teams will be better than usual.

A rotation of Casparius, then Wang, Simeone, Dunlop, Gallagher, and the true frosh. A bullpen lead by Cody, Willis, and if he's back Haus. A lineup that includes both Winkels, both Fedkos, Crawford, and Stock. Wow.

A team is very different if it has a good #1 starter than if it doesn't. This is huge.
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Haus signed with the Rangers about 10 days ago. Don't forget about Caleb Wurster as the closer.
 
Where did u see that Haus signed with the Rangers? I didn’t know he signed
 
David Langer tweeted a Gif about Casparius coming back... Uconnbsb retweeted it
does that mean he’s coming back?
 
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uconnbaseball said:
If Wang is as good as the coaches suggest, then we only need one more starter. Dunlop and Simeone redemption tour, or will one of our blue chip pitchers (Ziegler, Siravo) break the rotation as a freshman?
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After the end of the shortened season, there was an article on the UConn athletics website in which Coach MacDonald said that Pat Gallagher was a candidate to be a weekend starter next season. Don't know if the return of Casparius changes that or not, but it is clear that Gallagher impressed the coaching staff. Gallagher did very well in what was essentially a long relief role for the Huskies during the truncated season. Also, during the 2019 summer ball season, Gallagher had a few starts as well. UConn does look like it has a bunch of good candidates on the pitching staff for starting pitcher roles for next season.

My early guess for the weekend rotation would be Casparius, Wang, and Simeone, but obviously we'll see what happens during fall ball to potentially change that.
 
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My early guess for the weekday starter roles would be Pat Gallagher and either Ziegler or Siravo. I have always tended to view the weekday starter role as a developmental stepping stone to bigger things in the future. To me, it makes more sense for a younger player to fill this role than a senior.Gallagher has shown he can do the job in long relief, and weekday starters tend to get used that way on the weekends as well. I guess that would leave Colby Dunlop in a long relief role looking to fill in as a starter as needed.
 
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Personally, I think Ziegler is going to be a stud and it would be smart not to bruh him out so to speak so early in his career. Ziegler has the potential to be a Friday night starter his sophomore or JR szn
 
Unexpected good news. I assumed he was as good as gone after Amore's article
 
navery12 said:
Unexpected good news. I assumed he was as good as gone after Amore's article
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Assuming Casparius is as good as advertised, I don't think this is a bad gamble for him. He wasn't going to get much if any bonus money going pro this season. If he performs as expected pitching for the Huskies, Casparius potentially has a nice bonus check coming from next season's draft. Of course, he could get hurt, but he could get hurt in the pros as well.
 
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Tmill15 said:
Personally, I think Ziegler is going to be a stud and it would be smart not to bruh him out so to speak so early in his career. Ziegler has the potential to be a Friday night starter his sophomore or JR szn
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It certainly wouldn't surprise me if Calvin Ziegler eventually ends up as a Friday starter. I suspect that the UConn coaching staff is quite high on the potential of both Ziegler and Adrian Siravo. While my initial thinking is that Ziegler may get some weekday starts at the beginning of his career, you just never know about these things. In the past Coach Penders has definitely shown a tendency with freshman pitchers with high potential to get them established in key roles quickly, and that is most certainly true with weekend starters. From recent years we have the examples of Anthony Kay, Tim Cate, and Mason Feole to look at. Of course, it didn't work out so well with Ronnie Rossomando, but that's the way it goes sometimes.
 
Casparius is great news, but I wouldn't count on Ziegler. Rumor is that he may not be coming.
 
That's the thing with high level recruits, there is always a chance that they will go pro.
 
Casparius will be a weekend starter. Dunlop, Simeone and Wang will be fighting it out for the other two weekend slots, and maybe Gallagher as well.

I don't even think about a true frosh as a weekend starter until he gets here and starts showing what he can do in another roll.
 
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Another blurb from me on UConn starting pitching. I certainly think there is great potential for the starting pitching to be very good or better next season, there are a number of worthy candidates for these jobs. However, would also point out that none of the guys mentioned for starting roles has firmly established themselves as a starter at UConn in previous seasons. So until these guys prove themselves on the mound in starting roles in spring competition (and that includes the much talked about Casparius), there is also a bit of mystery and uncertainty here as well on how it will all turn out.

Still, it is better to have a bunch of guys with great talent than having a bunch of guys who don't have much potential at all. That being said, it is obvious that Coach Penders thinks very highly of Casparius and the ability he showed after he arrived in Storrs. Coach MacDonald has said all sorts of favorable things about Jimmy Wang, it pretty much sounds like with Wang it all comes down to getting some experience. And I think Joe Simeone can be a strikeout machine if he ever gains some consistency over his control. And if someone doesn't pan out, there are always the options of players like Gallagher, Dunlop, and the previously named freshmen.
 
I completely agree, depth at starting pitcher never hurts. Going to be important when it comes time for the conference and NCAA tournaments due to the quick turnarounds and the amount of games they play. The veterans like Dunlop and Simeone are going to be huge in developing these young guys.
 
Sending best wishes and a speedy recovery to Randy Polonia. He was a passenger in a Masarati that crashed in Stamford a few weeks ago. The driver died of his injuries yesterday. "Two passengers in the car also suffered burns and injuries and are currently recovering, according to Stamford Police."
 
dvegas said:
Sending best wishes and a speedy recovery to Randy Polonia. He was a passenger in a Masarati that crashed in Stamford a few weeks ago. The driver died of his injuries yesterday. "Two passengers in the car also suffered burns and injuries and are currently recovering, according to Stamford Police."
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Thanks for the info. Even before this accident there never was a firm announcement on whether or not Randy Polonia was returning to UConn baseball for next season.
 
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