If you’ve ever spent time considering who might start in left field for South Carolina baseball five years from now, you and coach Mark Kingston have something in common.
As fall practice is slated to begin soon, USC will have to replace the vast majority of its 2018 team that advanced to the NCAA Super Regionals, and Kingston isn’t prepared to say who he thinks will play where in 2019 — things can and will change so quickly that predictions this time of year are rough approximations at best.
But planning ahead, far ahead, is part of Kingston’s long-term approach at Carolina, and he told The State in an August interview that he has projected depth charts for as far as 2023, when the current class of incoming freshmen would either be fifth-year seniors or long gone.