re: 10 Total Baseball Commits for 24&25 seasons from Louisiana.

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Brady Neal is a great example. Its clear to everyone that Milazzo is the better catcher but Neal still plays as much, if not more than Milazzo when healthy. I get that Neal has a higher ceiling but he is not there yet.

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You answered your own question here. Neal has the higher ceiling so he is playing to try to gain in game experience to hopefully reach the potential and take the team to the next level. I do agree that the experiment may have went on a bit longer than it should have before getting Milazzo in more often, but even Milazzo is not performing at a really high level so why not continue to see if it all clicks for Neal.

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In the outfield, there is zero reason the Zeb Ruddell shouldn't have gotten at least a crack at one of the spots. It just seems like the higher recruited guys have a longer leash than the local, lesser recruited guys.

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There is a 47% K rate in spring scrimmages leading into the season reason why Ruddell didn't get more opportunities. He was also 3-28 in the spring scrimmages. That doesn't really scream he needs opportunities over guys who are getting the playing time.