With South Carolina baseball poised to begin full-team practices for the 2019 season, the state of coach Mark Kingston’s pitching staff remains as undefined as he left it in the fall.
The Gamecocks have just over three weeks before they open the season on Feb. 15 against Liberty. The starting pitcher for that game will “probably” be sophomore Carmen Mlodzinski, Kingston said Wednesday.
Beyond that, there are six other players Kingston is considering as starters — though that may change as he considers some radically unconventional approaches.
During the offseason, the USC coaching staff spoke to several MLB teams to stay “a step ahead, not a step behind, on what the latest ideas are,” as Kingston put it.