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MURFREESBORO, Tenn. – Derek Heffel has signed a national letter of intent to continue his baseball career at Middle Tennessee, according to Blue Raider Head Baseball Coach .
Heffel (6-foot-6, 225 pounds) is a sophomore at Madison Junior College in Madison, Wis., which also produced Middle Tennessee pitching standout .
The hard-throwing righty will have an opportunity to compete for a spot in the Middle Tennessee weekend rotation in 2017.
"Derek is a big, tall right-handed pitcher who has an opportunity to throw harder than he does now," McGuire said. "He was a guy we had targeted for a while, and we have recruited him for a while.