ECU’s veteran righty Frank Ciccone gives the Pirates a steady, inning-eating arm
In the 2025 season at Saint Joseph’s, Frank Ciccone emerged as a Friday-night starter, going 5-5 with a 4.70 ERA over 74.2 innings with 69 strikeouts, and he arrived at East Carolina as a proven transfer who is more effective starting than relieving. He’s a 6-foot-2, 205-pound senior with right-on-right power potential, solid strikeout ability, and the kind of starter’s mentality coaches trust when they need length; the tradeoff is that he can be hittable at times, so he profiles best as a dependable rotation piece rather than pure stuff-over-everything flamethrower.
