The TCU Horned Frogs opened baseball practice Friday as, so far, the consensus No. 1 team in the country.
Fine with them.
“We kind of stole something from the Cubs. We’re going to embrace the target,” pitcher Brian Howard said. “They were picked to win the World Series early on. We’re just going to love that, kind of be, ‘That’s good.’”
TCU is No. 1 in every set of preseason rankings released so far — by Collegiate Baseball, Perfect Game, D1Baseball.com, Baseball America and the USA Today Coaches Poll, with the National College Baseball Writers Association rankings still out.