You can never have too many arms.
Especially in a tournament.
That’s baseball 101.
College baseball coaches search for certainty. Batting orders are precisely put together to balance a variety of imperatives. Your top starter is your Friday starter, followed by the Saturday starter, the Sunday starter, the midweek starter, the seventh-inning reliever, well, you get the drift.
Nothing unique about this, of course. Nobody goes to a restaurant and tells the waiter or waitress to “surprise me.”
Which brings us to this week’s NCAA baseball regional in Knoxville Regional. All Duke knows for sure is that they’ll open Friday at noon, against Liberty.