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The Tigers begin their 122nd season with a three-game home series against South Alabama this weekend.
SERIES SETUP• Who – South Alabama (0-0) vs. Clemson (0-0)• Best Rankings – USA – NR; CU – No. 14 Baseball America• When – Friday (3 p.m.), Saturday (3 p.m.), Sunday (1 p.m.)• Where – Clemson, S.C. (Doug Kingsmore Stadium)• Watch – ACC Network Extra• Video Announcers – Jose Alvarez, Fred Cunningham (Saturday), Don Munson (Sunday), Ron Smith, Pete Yanity (Friday)• Listen (Radio) – WCCP (105.5 FM), ESPN Upstate• Listen (Internet) – ClemsonTigers.com, TuneIn• Live Stats – ClemsonTigers.com• Social Media – ClemsonBaseball• Tickets – ClemsonTigers.com, 1-800-CLEMSON• Promotion (Friday) – Giveaway – 2019 magnet schedule• Promotion (Saturday) – Game Highlight – Seth Beer Day; Giveaway – Commemorative Seth Beer poster• Promotion (Sunday) – Game Highlight – Kids run the bases postgame
SERIES HISTORY• Overall Record – Clemson leads 6-5 (1973-02)• Record at Clemson – Clemson leads 4-3 (1987-02)
STARTING PITCHERS• Friday – RHP Drake Nightengale (USA) vs. RHP Brooks Crawford (CU)• Saturday – RHP JoJo Booker (USA) vs. RHP Davis Sharpe (CU)• Sunday – TBA vs. LHP Justin Wrobleski (CU)
CLEMSON OVERVIEW• Clemson had a 47-16 overall record and 22-8 ACC mark in 2018.• The Tigers are led by fourth-year head coach Monte Lee, who has won 70 percent (133-57) of his games in Tigertown.• Clemson begins the season with a 10-game homestand and 18 of its first 21 games at home.
SOUTH ALABAMA OVERVIEW• South Alabama is led by eighth-year head coach Mark Calvi.• The Jaguars had a 32-25 overall record and an 18-11 Sun Belt Conference mark, good for a tie for third place, in 2018.• South Alabama had an outstanding .978 fielding percentage in 2018.
QUICK HITS• Clemson won its last 10 road games of 2018. The Tigers enter the 2019 season with the nation’s longest active road winning streak.• The Tigers play 18 of their first 21 games of the season at home, then 20 of their next 32 games away from home.• Juniors Logan Davidson (SS) and Carson Spiers (RHP) were voted as team co-captains by their teammates in January.
POLLS• Clemson is ranked as high as No. 14 in the nation by Baseball America in the preseason.• Clemson has been ranked in the top 25 by at least one poll for 46 straight weeks dating to 2016.
OPENING WEEKEND FRESHMEN• Davis Sharpe and Justin Wrobleski are slated to start on the mound as first-year freshmen this weekend against South Alabama.• They will be only the fifth and sixth Tiger first-year freshman pitchers to start within the first three games of a year since 1997.• Ryan Mottl (1997), Skip Browning (1997), Chris Dwyer (2009) and Jake Higginbotham (2016) started within the first three games from 1997-18.• This weekend marks the first time since 1997 that two Tiger freshmen start on the mound within the first three games of a season.• Graham Stoneburner (2008) and Kevin Brady (2010) started within the first three games of their redshirt freshman seasons.
PRESEASON HONORS• Nineteen Tigers earned preseason recognition. See the list below.
#46 KEYSHAWN ASKEW, LHP• No. 140 freshman in the nation by Perfect Game• No. 35 freshman in the ACC by Perfect Game
#4 GRAYSON BYRD, INF• No. 26 senior in the nation by Perfect Game
#8 LOGAN DAVIDSON, SS• Golden Spikes Award Watch List• First-team All-American by Baseball America• Second-team All-American by D1Baseball• Third-team All-American by Collegiate Baseball• Third-team All-American by Perfect Game• No. 3 shortstop in the nation by D1Baseball• No. 30 prospect for the 2019 draft by Baseball America• No. 20 college prospect for the 2019 draft by D1Baseball• No. 20 college prospect for the 2019 draft by Perfect Game• No. 18 junior in the nation by Perfect Game• ACC player-of-the-year by D1Baseball• First-team All-ACC by Perfect Game• No. 3 ACC prospect for the 2019 draft by Baseball America• No. 4 ACC prospect for the 2019 draft by D1Baseball
#35 CHAD FAIREY, INF/OF• No. 123 freshman in the ACC by Perfect Game
#31 ADAM HACKENBERG, C• No. 40 freshman in the nation by Perfect Game• No. 11 freshman in the ACC by Perfect Game• No. 34 freshman in the ACC by D1Baseball
#5 SAM HALL, INF/OF• No. 30 ACC prospect for the 2020 draft by D1Baseball
#44 BRYAR HAWKINS, INF/RHP• No. 143 freshman in the ACC by Perfect Game
#25 JACKSON LINDLEY, RHP• No. 122 freshman in the ACC by Perfect Game
#47 MATTHEW LUMSDEN, OF/1B• No. 125 freshman in the ACC by Perfect Game
#1 KIER MEREDITH, OF• No. 80 sophomore in the nation by Perfect Game• No. 33 ACC prospect for the 2020 draft by D1Baseball
#15 JAMES PARKER, INF• No. 268 freshman in the nation by Perfect Game• No. 55 freshman in the ACC by Perfect Game
#27 CARTER RAFFIELD, RHP• No. 49 freshman in the nation by Perfect Game• No. 13 freshman in the ACC by Perfect Game• No. 33 freshman in the ACC by D1Baseball
#30 DAVIS SHARPE, RHP/1B• No. 27 freshman in the nation by D1Baseball• No. 41 freshman in the nation by Perfect Game• No. 7 freshman in the ACC by D1Baseball
#23 CARSON SPIERS, RHP• NCBWA Stopper-of-the-Year Watch List• No. 34 reliever in the nation by D1Baseball
#29 SPENCER STRIDER, RHP• No. 97 college prospect for the 2020 draft by D1Baseball• No. 26 sophomore in the nation by Perfect Game• No. 21 ACC prospect for the 2020 draft by D1Baseball
#13 BRYCE TEODOSIO, OF• No. 99 outfielder in the nation by D1Baseball• No. 106 college prospect for the 2020 draft by D1Baseball• No. 23 ACC prospect for the 2020 draft by D1Baseball
#22 SAM WEATHERLY, LHP• No. 52 sophomore in the nation by Perfect Game
#10 KYLE WILKIE, C• No. 8 catcher in the nation by D1Baseball• No. 164 college prospect for the 2019 draft by D1Baseball• No. 30 ACC prospect for the 2019 draft by D1Baseball
#12 JUSTIN WROBLESKI, LHP/OF• No. 38 freshman in the nation by D1Baseball• No. 38 freshman in the nation by Perfect Game• No. 10 freshman in the ACC by Baseball America• No. 10 freshman in the ACC by Perfect Game• No. 11 freshman in the ACC by D1Baseball
