UConn’s comeback-armed righty with late-season momentum
Spirito is a redshirt sophomore RHP for UConn in the 2026 season who looks like a pitcher on the rise after returning from Tommy John surgery and rebuilding his workload carefully. In 2026, he delivered a scoreless inning in a rough team outing against Boston College and later turned in a career-high 2.1 innings out of the pen, with a standout two-inning, scoreless performance featuring two strikeouts in UConn’s Big East-clinching stretch. The big differentiator here is resilience: after missing all of 2024 and pitching only 4.2 innings in 2025, he showed real summer-ball durability and a nasty competitive edge.
