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Message: [QUOTE="dbmill, post: 3127221, member: 2504"] Randy Polonia is currently heading in the wrong direction after a nice start. It's odd, but as he is dropping down the bullpen totem pole, Avery Santos is rising, and they are the two guys who are basically making comebacks from arm surgery. The biggest difference seems to be that Santos is now one more year removed from being on the shelf than Polonia, and it is probably helping his arm strength. I suspect we will start seeing Polonia closing out not so close out of conference games, similar to what Santos had been doing recently, while Santos may end up joining Gardner and Simeone in the type of work they get. It seems that recently Santos has turned around his less than stellar start to the season. As far as position players go, while Chris Winkel is not a great offensive player, I definitely think he can do better than the .245 that he is currently hitting. Also possible that Moriarty can get his batting average over the .200 mark. Also think that Kyler Fedko could be the one to emerge out of the D.H. spot, but we'll have to see with that one. Overall, I'm half thinking that if UConn can get a gradual improvement from the bottom 4 in the batting order, that will be a big help right there. Also, while Nucerino has come on with a big rush, it would not surprise me if his average slips below .300. Still, as we have discussed, given all his other attributes, he still should be an effective offensive player. [/QUOTE]