The strength of TCU’s baseball program over the last several seasons has been its starting pitching; time and time again, Jim Schlossnagle and Kirk Saarloos have managed to reload at the most important positions, no matter how many players graduate and/or move on to the big leagues.
TCU has gone from Preston Morrison, Brandon Finnegan, and Tyler Alexander (2014) to Morrison, Alexander, Alex Young, and Mitchell Traver (2015) to Brian Howard, Jared Janczak, Luken Baker, and Rex Hill (2016) to Howard, Janczak, Traver, and Nick Lodolo (2016) - and despite all those changing pieces, they have made the College World Series with each rendition of the rotation.