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Message: [QUOTE="dbmill, post: 2154725, member: 2504"] Not bad responses at all. I like both of them. However, I thought I might drop a few words about Ronnie Rossomando, UConn's current midweek starter. I hope people don't underrate that he does have talent and a good arm, even though he has yet to totally harness his abilities. Remember, he was taken in the MLB draft coming out of high school. I think he is partly a victim of his own bad timing. Last season after struggling early as a weekend starter, I thought he was just starting to come into his own after a midweek start in the middle of April against Fairfield where he pitched 7 terrific innings. I was really looking forward to his next midweek start to see what he could do. However, Rossomando never got to follow that start up, as he came down with an injury prior to his next start. The injury robbed Rossomando of several midweek starts where he could have had the opportunity to build off that performance and to build confidence. Over the summer, Rossomando was terrific out of the bullpen in the Cape Cod League. Seeing this, I thought this would be a great role to feature his blazing fastball. Evidently, so did Penders, so he was cast as a late inning guy out of the pen. Well, that blew up on everyone (and John Russell seized the closer role), but Penders had to find a way to rebuild his confidence outside of important AAC weekend games. That led to the midweek starting role, where he could get regular work. Only problem was that Rossomando's arm was not built up from the beginning of the season to be a starter, so bad timing again. Rossomando is now playing catch up in building up his arm strength for that role. So up to now we've seen him pitch 3 to 5 innings of varying quality in each start. Rossomando did have his highest pitch count in this last start. Based on this and on the quality of his last start, I'm hoping that he can start going 6 innings a start from here on in. Hopefully he can develop and become more effective in a similar fashion that Montgomerie did last April. If he does, Rossomando has the arm to still become a weekend starter next season. [/QUOTE]

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