re: Best LSU baseball player ever.

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There fixed it for you.

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thanks. I only heard that from a couple of Pro players I talked to. He was alot like Will Clark in that regard.

todd walker fa sho

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That's 11. With 2 more on the verge below.

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You gave a list of 21, and I found 3 of them were from the earlier era I was talking about (Dreifort, Wilson, & Graves), all going to big name schools and participating multiple times in the CWS in the years 1991-94.

So then you really have a list of 18 pitchers, 9 of which were 30+ game winners, in comparison to 7 that were on the LSU roster in the 4 seasons from 1987 to 1990. The list just isn't that good.

And I'm using "small fry guys" to refer to guys who pitched from schools that aren't very good at baseball, and that don't typically have any impact on the big stage at the CWS--Zito at UC-Santa Barbara, Sheets at ULM, Lidge at Notre Dame, etc. Those are mostly guys that the MLB passed on coming out of high school, rather than guys like Kris Benson of Clemson who were big time prospects from the start.

The old school guys who were at the CWS in the 80's and early 90's just tended to be significantly better than the newer guys from the late 90's and early 00's. That's just the way it was.