FAYETTEVILLE — Arkansas is set to open fall practice Friday, just 10 weeks removed from playing for a national championship at the College World Series.
The 2019 season promises to look quite different from 2018 for the Razorbacks. Arkansas must replace nearly a dozen contributors from its national runner-up team, and for the first time will play in-state competition with home games against Arkansas-Little Rock on April 2 and Arkansas-Pine Bluff on April 16, a development 17th-year coach Dave Van Horn calls “exciting” and good for baseball across the state.
This fall will be about finding replacements for players that had been staples in the lineup, pitching rotation and bullpen for the past two-to-four years.