With just over 24 hours before first pitch, South Carolina head coach Chad Holbrook announced his roster of active players and those who will redshirt for the 2016 season. The players were informed early in the week.

Several players preemptively left the team, which made Holbrook’s job of getting down to the 35-man maximum a little bit easier. Three of the six players who are inactive this year are injured while two of the other three have redshirt years available.

Pitchers Wil Crowe, Cody Morris and John Parke have all had Tommy John surgery and would have been unable to pitch this year. Crowe and Morris are on close to the same timetable and would have been ready late in the year, potentially, to pitch. Since they were not included on the active roster, both have been disqualified from competing this season.

True freshmen Hank Nichols and Harrison Smith, both pitchers, will sit out this season and redshirt. Junior pitcher Hayden Heflin, who is in his second year in the program and sat out last season, will also sit out this season.

Holbrook said that redshirt junior Dillon Hodge, who has not made the active roster before, was the final man on the 35-man squad.

2016 active roster and redshirts

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