His injuries unfortunately outnumber his collegiate baseball honors, which for Pat Devlin would have otherwise been many by now.

UMass Lowell coach Ken Harring sounds fairly certain of that.

"Take away his injuries and he has a career like (Cam) Kneeland had," says Harring, projecting the frequently interrupted promise of Devlin onto the healthy fulfillment that was Kneeland, three times a first-team Northeast-10 Conference and All-East selection before he graduated to independent pro ball after batting .363 last spring.