The road to a better pitching staff begins with the weekend starting rotation, which has been overhauled for 2016.
College baseball teams play three-game series every weekend, with the aces facing each other Friday. The second-best starters pitch Saturday and the third-best take the mound Sunday.
The Salukis posted a 6.14 ERA as a pitching staff in 2015, with seniors Aaron Hauge and Bryce Sablotny and sophomore Kyle Pruemer making most of the weekend starts.
Coach Ken Henderson said transfer junior left-hander Joey Marciano, junior right-hander Chad Whitmer and sophomore righty Michael Baird will make up the weekend rotation in the Salukis' first series of the season, Friday through Sunday at McNeese State.