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Season Opener

Finally! It’s baseball season again. Opening Day for the Cardinal is Friday at newly-renovated Klein Field at Sunken Diamond. Stanford opens its 40th season under the helm of Mark Marquess—the fourth-winningest head coach in college baseball history—with a series against Cal State Fullerton.

Series History

Stanford leads 57-43 dating back to the first meeting in 1979, and won two of three over the Titans last season.
 Prior to last season, the last meeting between these schools was in the 2011 NCAA Regional in Fullerton in 2011—Stanford defeated the eighth-ranked Titans, 1-0. Jordan Pries (7.2) and Chris Reed (1.1) combined for the shutout. Stanford won the Regional the next day with a 14-2 victory over Illinois, but eventually fell in the Super Regional at North Carolina.
 The season prior, Fullerton ended Stanford’s season in the Fullerton Regional, 6-5.
 Stanford was swept on the road the last time these teams opened the season against each other.

Klein Field at Sunken Diamond Enhancements

Long regarded as one of the most beautiful college baseball facilities in the country, Klein Field at Sunken Diamond underwent several renovations this offseason.
Upgraded playing surface—completely replaced, laser-graded flat, features Bermuda grass and top-grade Pennsylvania clay in addition to new irrigation system.
A modernized and expanded clubhouse now includes a players lounge, dedicated athletic training space and coaches locker room.
Other developments included the modification and expansion of the ticket office, concession stands and restrooms.

They're Here!

Head Coach Mark Marquess added 11 freshmen in his latest recruiting class.
Three pitchers (one lefty), four infielders, three outfielders and a catcher. Six are from the homestate of California, three from Georgia and one apiece from Colorado and Nevada.

They're Back

Nearly 80 percent of Stanford’s starting lineup and rotation return from a year ago.
More than 80 percent of the Cardinal’s at-bats, runs, hits and RBI from 2015 are back on the roster.
Cal Quantrill and John Hochstatter are both set to return for the 2016 season after both missed the majority of the 2015 campaign due to injury. Each pitcher underwent Tommy John surgery last year.
Despite short seasons from Quantrill and Hochstatter, the Cardinal will have more than 70 percent of its wins, strikeouts and innings back.

Preseason All-America

Juniors Cal Quantrill and Tommy Edman each earned preseason All-America accolades.
Quantrill was name third team Louisville Slugger Preseason All-America accolades from Collegiate Baseball News, and third team preseason All-America accolades from Baseball America.
Quantrill was a Louisville Slugger and Perfect Game Freshman All-American before his sophomore season was cut short due to injury. Prior to the injury, the Port Hope, Ontario, native was 2-0 with a 1.93 ERA last season. As a freshman, Quantrill was 7-5 with a 2.68 ERA in 17 starts, which included two complete games and 98 strikeouts in 110.2 innings. He earned All-Pac-12 honors and was named Pac-12 Freshman of the Year.
A math and computational science major, Edman was the only Cardinal to start every game last season and finished with a team-high 29 RBI, 13 doubles, 22 multi-hit games, and was third on the team with a .296 average.

Watch List

Junior Cal Quantrill was also named to the Golden Spikes Award preseason watch list.
One of 50 players named to the award given annually to the nation’s top amateur player.
One of 4 players to be on that list for the second straight year.

2016 Schedule

54 regular season games, 30 at Klein Field.
More than half of the schedule (30/55, 54.5%) is against 2015 tournament teams.
Cal (5), Texas (4), Cal St. Fullerton (3), UCLA (3), USC (3), Oregon (3), Oregon State (3), Arizona State (3), Vanderbilt (3).
Though the Top 25 rankings vary, each has included at least 20+ games for Stanford against Top 25 opponents.
11-day break from March 7-17 for finals.
Longest homestand is seven games and 20 days long (March 1-20).
Longest road swing is four games (four times).
First eight games are in 10 days.

TV Games

Eighteen Stanford baseball games will be broadcast on the Pac-12 Network and Pac-12 Bay Area in 2016.
Eleven of the 18 will feature the newly-renovated Klein Field at Sunken Diamond and and 14 will be Pac-12 matchups.
Only USC and Arizona State will have more televised games on the conference network (19) than the Cardinal this year.

Media Day

Preseason Prognostications

Pac-12 coaches picked Stanford baseball to finish seventh in the conference in 2016.
Oregon State was selected as the favorite. The Beavers earned 98 points and eight first-place votes, while Stanford garnered 49 points.

A Stanford Sweep Would...

Make the Cardinal 3-0 to start the season for the first time since sweeping Vanderbilt in 2012.
Mark the first three-game win streak since March 3-6 last season (San Jose State and Texas, twice).
Be the first sweep since a three-game set at Utah (May 23-25, 2014).
Be the first sweep of Cal State Fullerton since Feb. Feb. 29-March 2, 2008 at Sunken Diamond

A Stanford Series Win Would...

Mark the second straight series win over the Titans.
Make the Cardinal 2-1 to start the season.

A Stanford Win Would...

Make the Cardinal 1-2 on the year to start the season for the fourth straight year.
Mark the first series loss to Fullerton since Feb. 27-March 1, 2009 (swept).
Be less good than three wins.

Up Next

 A busy start continues for the Cardinal with a day trip to UC Davis on Monday (2 p.m.)
 Tuesday is set to be an off day and Wednesday will be a travel day before a four-game series at Texas begins on Thursday.