That is very sad that we lost Joey... our last and only Hawaiian was pretty darn good, so it would have been nice to have another good one from the isolated archipelago.
Lewis is huge. We lose a whole lot of bats next season, and that was our strong point in many respects, so returning a pitcher who will be a redshirt junior next year would be massive. To know that we'd have our weekend starters locked up with Hjelle on Friday and then Thompson on Saturday and Lewis on Sunday would be simply amazing. We'd have a pretty solid senior Schaenzer in the bullpen, Machamer would be a great long reliever, Maley with another year of experience will be a great change of pace type pitcher. Marshall, Keen, Smith, and the freshmen would/could compete for the midweek roles and then the only question mark would be finding a closer. Not sure who would be the closer, but Austin Marazos sounds like he has the type of stuff to make a solid closer, specifically having good command of a fastball with some movement (albeit not a ton of speed), a changeup that looks very similar to that fastball, and a slider that he can work in the zone. However, that is just a major guess.
