Pitching / hitting / execution

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Clearly we recruit small guys to play small ball.. which is cool, however, that doesn’t work if the players you have can’t execute small ball type plays.

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This

Right, but you’re telling me the group of pitchers that are healthy can’t eat up innings and keep a game close? Our last pitcher should be an average NCAA pitcher at worst.

I don’t think CPM gets these guys enough work during the season. Experience is huge, we should have a bunch of guys with 20+ innings thrown on the season

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CPM seems incapable of coaching to these guys strengths.

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Ehh you could also argue that he has coached these guys to get further than they should have two years in a row. IMO his fault lies in recruiting.

Very much a recruiting problem. He entrusted Sanchez with recruiting and that was a big mistake. The last two classes he had here were not the caliber we need hence the absence of impact juniors and solid seniors

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no one will care about losing to Tulane on Tuesday night

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They get even more pissed

“How can we sweep Ole Miss but lose to Tulane?”

I think it’s a moot point anyway. It’s a zero sum game. If you give Kodros-Moffit-Petersen 30 more innings that takes innings from other guys like Peterson with more potential who needed the work to develop. Would he be having this late season surge without it?

Well roster limits combined with injuries is why the pitching depth is down. Next years staff will be right back on track.
HOWEVER our lack of an offensive identity drives me crazy! I'm seeing other teams this weekend with guys batting in the 5-6 hole with over 50 RBIs and we have Jake slaughter out there with 28. Are we small ball? No we can't bunt. Do we run the bases well? Nope. Do we hit for gap to gap power? Eh not really. Do we have power? No way. Do we work pitchers with toughABs? Not exactly.
I can't tell you what it is we do well on offense

Yes, we do need a legit hitting coach. However, to CPM’s defense, he had to promote Gibbs last year when Cannizzaro left for State. He didn’t have another option.

After how good we were at the plate in 2017, how do you not give Gibbs another season. Then he blew out his knee, which forced him to promote Ochinko. If Ochinko remains the hitting coach next year, then I’d be frustrated.

We were still near the top of the SEC this year in batting, but this is the Rant. If we don’t win it all, we need to fire the coach.

It was one of our worst games played this season and probably one of their beat offensively for sure.

Yes we sure could have taken advantage of the first 3 innings and made this game close but baseball is a hit or miss type of sport. If we can get past NWS, then I suspect that our next game will be much closer.

You have to remember that we took these guys out of the CWS last year with an average team and one of their best teams. We don't have that type of talent this year plus we have injuries on the mound.

Next year should be a much deeper squad and we will make a run in 2019 IMO. Look at the difference in OM from last year to this year. I think LSU makes a very similar leap from 18 to 19.

Hess needs to return and with Cam Sanders, Fontenot, Stortz, Hillard, Labas, and the new pitchers coming in, LSU will be one of the deeper pitching staffs in the country not just the SEC. GT

This year just isn't our year but we could still make a run at this.

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This myth needs to die, because A) We recruit ATHLETIC guys to play great defense B) WE DONT PLAY "SMALL BALL" There are not only 2 styles of baseball; hitting a bunch of bmobs and bunting.

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I agree with this

Who can’t bunt worth dick or hit and run worth dick.

The defense is also atrocious. This is the worst fielding team I’ve seen at LSU since smoke laval.