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Braden Quinn has pitched 21 innings this summer, 5 appearances, 3 starts and now has a 2.14 ERA. 21 strikeouts, 19 hits allowed, 11 walks.
 
Competition for bullpen is going to be fierce as outside of Willis no one has much experience (recent) to draw from. Even if some of the seldom used guys do come back I would think it would be a fresh slate and let the best 5-6 rise to the top
 
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Casey Dana just joined Ocean State, he played his first games for them the last couple of days. He has had a couple of very good seasons at the bat for Seton Hall. His defense does not appear to be his strong point.

UConn is obviously working the transfer market, particularly the Grad transfers, pretty hard for the coming season. Casey Dana is the sixth transfer to UConn from another college program (including JUCO's and non Division 1) for the coming season that has been reported in these threads.
 
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Cole Chudoba has had a very good summer with the the Bourne Braves of the Cape League. In 6 relief appearances and 17.2 innings, he has only had one bad outing. In that one outing, in 3 innings he gave up 8 hits and 4 earned runs, which doubled the number of hits Chudoba had given up on the Cape. You throw out that one appearance, he has allowed 8 hits in 14.2 innings, and has only 1 earned run against him in those 14.2 innings. Also, he has only given up 2 walks this summer.

Chudoba is transferring to UConn from a non Division 1 NCAA school in Assumption, so in normal circumstances you would have to wonder how he would fair against the Division 1 schools that UConn plays during its spring season. Chudoba is playing in arguably the highest regarded college summer league in the Cape Cod League, and he has been doing quite well there. There is definitely a big plus to that since he is playing against very talented players, and it certainly makes me look forward to see how he does at UConn when he arrives at summer. Chudoba was primarily a starting pitcher at Assumption, but has been used out of the bullpen this summer on the Cape. It will be interesting to see how he ends up getting used once he arrives in Storrs.
 
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Hector Alejandro has had quite a summer pitching for the Bristol Blues. In his first appearance for the Blues, he gave up 6 runs, 4 of them earned (2 errors behind him), 2 hits, 2 walks while not getting anyone out. That will do wonders for your ERA. It was also the first official game he had pitched all season, as he redshirted at UConn this spring.

Since that one appearance, Alejandro has been quite good, and he has been used quite a bit. 10 more appearances all in relief, 17.2 innings, 1 earned run against him, 7 hits, 6 walks, 17 strikeouts in those 10 appearances. His ERA now stands at 2.54 which includes that first appearance when he didn't get anyone out.
 
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It was certainly a very good week for Brendan O'Donnell. His ERA for most of the summer season has hovered around 5.00 or so. O'Donnell's performance this week was good enough to get his summer season ERA down to 3.37. To his credit, O'Donnell has been used quite a bit by the Vermont NECBL team (as opposed to the Vermont Frontier League team). O'Donnell is fifth on the team for innings pitched (24 innings), and is fourth on the for number of appearances at 13, all in relief. He also has 8 walks in 24 innings, which isn't bad at all, especially for a young pitcher. The NECBL is in the last week of the summer season before the playoffs start, it will be interesting to see how O'Donnell progresses from here.
 
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Norwich can certainly use the three runs (they have had problems on offense of late) from the Korey Morton homer. On that basis (plus the fact that he is indeed a Husky), we have to be pleased.

Had a tiring day at work today, so I'm not at the game tonight. My wife is at the game, and sent me a message about the Korey Morton homer just before I saw this. Morton takes huge swings at almost every pitch he goes after, and she is afraid this will just encourage him to continue with the huge swings. I definitely agree with her from what I have seen of him this summer. Before this game started, Morton was hitting .218 for the summer season for Norwich. My wife and I both wish he took an approach at the plate that took more advantage of his speed, just putting the ball in play and cutting down on his strikeouts. This summer he has strikeouts in close to half of his official at bats. As I've mentioned before, he takes the huge swings and will swing at virtually anything, he does not really show good strike zone judgement.
 
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As of July 15, Simmons was hitting .189 in 12 games played. No doubt he had to work himself back from the injury that ended his UConn season. Since that date Simmons has gotten very hot at the plate, and is now hitting .324 with 4 homers and 3 doubles in 71 official at bats. He now has a .422 on base percentage, and a .563 slugging percentage. Only real blemish is that he strikes out in a bit over a third of his at bats. Still, definitely looking forward to seeing how he does at UConn next season.
 
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Incoming transfer Ben Huber:

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It is really amazing in a summer season that last just over a couple months how much player movement there is with summer ball. Definitely seeing it with Norwich this summer, as players just come and go.

Always seems like the Cape Cod teams pick up new players just before their playoffs start. Be interesting to see how Ben Huber does with this brief stint with Bourne.
 
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