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"\"&lt;p&gt;Mississippi righthander Scott Bittle will miss his second consecutive start this weekend for the Rebels due to biceps tendinitis, coach Mike Bianco said Wednesday.&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;He will not pitch this weekend,&amp;quot;&amp;nbsp;said Bianco, who added that Bittle threw a bullpen Tuesday to see if he could get ready for the weekend. &amp;quot;The good news is he&amp;#8217;s a lot better than he was last week in throwing the ball, actually got to long toss a little bit yesterday. (He) still feels some stiffness in the biceps area. We just felt we&amp;#8217;ve gone this far and made so many gains, it wasn&amp;#8217;t worth the risk to run him out there if he&amp;#8217;s not 100 percent.&amp;quot;&lt;span id=\\\"more-26402\\\"&gt;&lt;\\/span&gt;&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;Bittle was a second-round pick of the Yankees last year but didn&amp;#8217;t pass medical muster with the organization and didn&amp;#8217;t sign, missing out on a bonus of roughly $500,000. Owner of the nation&amp;#8217;s best cut fastball and the Division I leader in 2008 for strikeouts per nine innings at 16.55, Bittle has shifted to a rotation role after a below-par start and has shined in that role. He&amp;#8217;s 4-1, 1.89 in SEC&amp;nbsp;games with 54 strikeouts in 38 innings, and he&amp;#8217;s 5-2, 2.17 overall with 68 strikeouts in 46 innings.&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;As we&amp;#8217;ve done the last week now, it&amp;#8217;s day to day, and when he&amp;#8217;s ready to throw he&amp;#8217;ll throw,&amp;quot; Bianco said. &amp;quot;We were hoping to use him this weekend but not as a starter, hoping he could give us a couple innings out of the bullpen. Now I guess that will be his role in the postseason, or I guess he could start a game. But we just want to get him healthy.&amp;quot;&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n\""^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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