re: Hughes may have his faults

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just don't understand how he stood out enough in high school to warrant and out of state scholarship from LSU. As someone else said, he wouldn't have started on my high school team, and that's not an exaggeration.

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He batted .360 and made just one error at shortstop his senior year in high school. He was also on the sec academic honor roll last year so I’m guessing he is smart and got some academic scholarship help to allow LSU to offer him less.

He was never meant to be nothing more than a defensive specialist at this point in his LSU career. Smith getting hurt and him being forced to play a full time shortstop role sped up his progression. This season when he nor Reid were hitting well CPM wanted more range at third so he played a lot. Let’s not pretend Reid was hitting well at the end of the season. He wasn’t even having his usually good at bats once the postseason started.

There was only one ball hit to Hughes at third base in regional.(which he didn’t make a play on) so does it really matter if you have a defensive juggernaut at third base. Offense over defense for third base at any level

And don’t tell me that was a difficult play. A high hopper to the backhand side is not hard.