At 5 pm CST today in Auburn, Alabama, it will be 68 degrees, overcast, humid, but a little breezy. In other words, pretty good conditions for a mid-February start to the 2018 baseball season at Plainsman Park.
Auburn opens the year against Longwood tonight to try and build on a year during which big strides were made in Butch Thompson’s second season. Thompson opens his third year on the Plains with one of, if not the, best pitcher in the country in Casey Mize, who will start tonight’s game.
Tonight, Auburn begins the year against the Lancers of Longwood, and this series should serve as a good testing ground for a Tiger team trying to fit in some new pieces.