FWST: TCU heads to Big 12 baseball tournament after ‘overachieving’

FWST: TCU heads to Big 12 baseball tournament after ‘overachieving’

BY CARLOS MENDEZ cmendez@star-telegram.com

Favored to win the Big 12, TCU heads to the conference tournament off a third-place finish.

It may be an unexpected result, but coach Jim Schlossnagle keeps the big picture in mind.

“In my mind, this team has overachieved,” he said. “Especially from a pitching standpoint, I think you’ve overachieved in a major way, when you look at the major injuries or the underperformance of some veteran pitchers and how some guys that we weren’t counting on have pitched.”

The Horned Frogs, who learned a week before the season began that they would be without projected opening night starter Mitchell Traver and had to redshirt starting center fielder and leadoff hitter Nolan Brown because of a broken hand, open postseason Wednesday as the No. 3 seed in the Phillips 66 Big 12 Baseball Championship. …
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