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Rice Baseball 2025 Season Review: Starting Pitching

May 31, 2025 By Matthew Bartlett

The Rice baseball starting rotation kept the Owls afloat, grinding through ups and downs and giving the team a chance more often than not.

The pitching staff went through many shifts and changes as David Pierce took over for Jose Cruz Jr. as the ice baseball head coach midseason. Pitching coach Parker Bangs did his best to piece things together, ultimately settling on a few different variations for the weekend rotation as the year progressed.

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For the purposes of this discussion, the two pitchers who were mainstays in the weekend rotation, with three others seeing a meaningful run as starters that warranted inclusion in this discussion. Here’s a rundown of how those starters fared this season.

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