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FORT WORTH – The No. 18 ranked TCU baseball team is set to get the 2025 campaign underway with a four-game series at San Diego starting Friday night.
GoFrogs: No. 18 TCU Baseball at San Diego Preview
FORT WORTH – The No. 18 ranked TCU baseball team is set to get the 2025 campaign underway with a four-game series at San Diego starting Friday night.
INSIDE THE SERIES
TCU (0-0) vs. San Diego (0-0)
Friday, Feb. 14 • 8 p.m. (CT)
TV: ESPN+
Radio: 88.7 KTCU FM/Varsity App
Starter: RHP Caedmon Parker
Saturday, Feb. 15 • 7 p.m. (CT)
TV: ESPN+
Radio: 88.7 KTCU FM/Varsity App
Starter: RHP Tommy LaPour
Sunday, Feb. 16 • 3 p.m. (CT)
TV: ESPN+
Radio: 88.7 KTCU FM/Varsity App
Starter: RHP Trever Baumler
Sunday, Feb. 17 • 2 p.m. (CT)
TV: ESPN+
Radio: 88.7 KTCU FM/Varsity App
Starter: TBA
TCU NOTABLES
• For the 16th consecutive year, TCU enters the season as a ranked team.
• TCU is ranked in four of five preseason polls.
• They are as high as No. 18 in the Perfect Game poll and as low as No. 23 (D1, NCBWA, USA Today).
• TCU was picked to finish third in the Big 12 preseason poll, earning one first place vote.
• TCU's freshman class, which features 14 members, was ranked No. 8 by D1Baseball.com.
• Former associate head coach Bill Mosiello returns to the coaching staff after two years as head coach at Ohio State.
• Ben Abeldt and Anthony Silva were named to the Big 12 preseason All-Conference squad.
• Abeldt was named the preseason Pitcher of the Year by Baseball America and tabbed a preseason All-American by Perfect Game and the NCBWA.
• Noah Franco has been selected as the preseason Freshman of the Year by league coaches.
• Caedmon Parker elected to return to school after being drafted in the 11th round by Milwaukee.
SAN DIEGO NOTABLES
• San Diego is the projected conference champion by D1Baseball.com.
• Two-way star Austin Smith was voted a 2nd-team preseason All-American and has been projected as the league's Player of the Year.
• The Torero's return two members from last year's rotation in Smith and Logan Reddemann.
• Pitcher Andrew Mosiello was a member of the 2024 TCU baseball team.
ROAD NOTABLES
• TCU is opening the season with a road series for the first time since the 2018 season (at Grand Canyon).
• TCU will play 22 road games this season.
• TCU has won 29 of 60 road series since Kirk Saarloos' arrival in 2013.
• TCU is 29-16 in road midweek games with Saarloos.
• TCU is 129-105 on the road with Saarloos on staff and 28-31 with Saarloos as head coach.
• TCU has been above .500 on the road in seven of Saarloos' 12 seasons on staff.
• TCU has won 18 of 43 road conference series since Kirk Saarloos' arrival in 2013.
SEASON OPENER HISTORY
• TCU is opening on the road in a non-tournament environment for the first time since the 2018 season.
• The road series opener is the third with head coach Kirk Saarloos on staff (2013 at Ole Miss, 2018 at Grand Canyon).
• TCU is 1-1 in season-openers on the road in the Kirk Saarloos era.
• TCU has won six straight season openers.
• TCU is 9-3 in season-openers with Kirk Saarloos on staff and 3-0 with Saarloos as head coach.
SERIES NOTABLES
• TCU and San Diego are meeting on the diamond for the fifth time.
• The series is tied a two games apiece.
• TCU is 0-1 in games played against the Toreros in San Diego, having dropped a 9-6 decision on March 12, 2019.
• The Horned Frogs picked up a 2-1 series win against San Diego in Fort Worth in 2023.
• San Diego won the series opener 14-2 but the Horned Frogs bounced back with with victories of 3-1 and 5-4 in the final two contests.
