UConn @ St John for 3 (Fri. 3/16@3p, Sat. 3/17@1p & Sun. 3/18@1p)

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After last season and his poor performance in the Cape Cod League over the summer, I was a bit worried that Rossomando might be taking the Andrew Zapata path to pitching irrelevancy. Beginning to look like Ronnie has turned away from that journey. Instead, he might be turning into a big cog of this bullpen.

One more thought on Ronnie Rossomando before moving on to the next game on the schedule. It may only because he was coming back from arm surgery in the fall, but it is amazing how quickly Rossomando has moved from being a virtual forgotten man in the bullpen to a potentially big cog in the bullpen. He has only pitched in 4 games so far this season, but the first time wasn't until the last game in a losing cause against North Florida in the third weekend of the season. At the time it only seemed to be a cursory last out appearance just to get his feet wet in a game UConn was losing. His second appearance was in the blowout against The Citadel. But with his last two appearances against Coastal Carolina and St. John's, it looks like Rossomando is about to become a major player in the UConn bullpen.

Sometimes the shift from being an inconsistent pitcher to someone who is depended upon is a gradual thing. Wills Montgomerie was an example of that a couple of years ago. Other times it seems that a light suddenly comes on where the pitcher is suddenly effective, and that looks like it could be Rossomando at this moment.