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Message: [QUOTE="dbmill, post: 2747012, member: 2504"] More from the New London Day and Coach Penders upcoming meeting with the Burrows family: [URL='https://www.theday.com/local-sports/20180608/uconns-penders-ready-to-make-his-pitch-to-burrows']UConn's Penders ready to make his pitch to Burrows[/URL] >>"It's great to have choices in life," Penders said on Thursday night at the UConn Huskies Coaches Road Show in Stamford. "We're going to go down and visit him and his family in the house and just go over some of the data points that we have. It's not my position or college baseball's position. We're just going to show him some of the facts."<< >>"We do a better job of developing major leaguers than the minor leagues do," Penders said, referring to college baseball.<< >>Penders points out that in the last three decades only four players from Connecticut have successfully bypassed college and reached the major leagues.<< >>"I think 64 percent of major league baseball players have attended at least some college. Then you take the international free agents out of that mix. There's very few guys that make it out of high school.<< [/QUOTE]