When it came to finding a new cleanup hitter, TCU coach Jim Schlossnagle didn’t have many options.
Evan Skoug is an ideal 3-hole hitter. Josh Watson and Elliott Barzilli haven’t repeated their power numbers of last year. Connor Wanhanen has not homered this year. Nolan Brown and Ryan Merrill don’t quite fit. Austen Wade is a premier leadoff hitter.
Of course, no one was going to be a new Luken Baker.
But somebody had to hit fourth in the lineup with Baker’s season officially over.
The job fell to second baseman Cam Warner.