Fifth-year senior Mitchell Traver is scheduled to begin the season in the rotation as the Tuesday starter for No. 1-ranked TCU.
That does not make the right-hander an afterthought, however, coach Jim Schlossnagle said.
“I’ve never liked that term, ‘Tuesday starter.’ When you’re playing Dallas Baptist and Rice and Long Beach State, those games decide seasons,” Schlossnagle said. “They decide whether you host. They decide seeding, all that kind of stuff. I don’t ever want to be one of those teams that thinks the Tuesday game is some sort of exhibition.”
TCU (3-0) visits UT Arlington (2-2) on Tuesday after a season-opening sweep of Penn State.