FWST: TCU heads to Big 12 baseball tournament after ‘overachieving’
BY CARLOS MENDEZÂ 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.â€
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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