re: Rumor that Latz leaving

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Smoke could ruin 3 arms in one inning.

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He used the same philosophy as Skip.

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Paul(John Brady) Mainieri runs off another player.

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This trope has become so lazy on this board.

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let's be completely honest. We made the CWS in 2015 without him and we made the supers this year and earned a national seed with a completely rebuilt lineup, largely without him, this year.

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Agree. It's probably more important that Mckay develop. We were all assuming he'd be the Saturday starter based on him throwing a max of what 3-4 innings 1 time. I have no reason to believe that he would have come in next year and been able to throw 7,8 or 9 innings with a full arsenal of pitches....and then come back on a weeks rest to repeat.

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If anyone is the greatest that never was, he is.

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Honestly it's just not even worth being harsh to the guy. I'd imagine it's pretty humbling to passing up so much money when he was drafted in high school to seeing LSU move on, with or without him.

Best of luck to the baw. I wish he stayed, but oh well. He would have been a big piece to next year's team, but I think LSU will be fine.

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It just baffles me as to why a great baseball program like LSU never has more than 1 really good pitcher. Teams like Vandy, Florida, Fullerton, and many more consistently have 2 or 3 dominant starting pitchers. What are these other teams doing to get all these big time pitchers to come that we can't seem to figure out?

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Umm, we've had two great starters on many occasions. We've just always struggled with a third starter

That's certainly true but I think the fact that he's a lefty that throws 90s, was highly recruited, and is someone we've actually seen be productive, had many LSU fans hoping he would step up next year.

Add in the fact that it would also be a feel good story because of his injuries and you've got a fan favorite and a guy LSU fans were really pulling for.

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It just baffles me as to why a great baseball program like LSU never has more than 1 really good pitcher.

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You do realize it was a not even 5 years ago that we had Gausman and Nola in the same rotation, right?

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let's be completely honest. We made the CWS in 2015 without him and we made the supers this year and earned a national seed

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Yeah, but just think what we could have done with him instead of without him. I'm not content with just going to Omaha or making Supers

And Ranaudo and Coleman before that

Pretty much my sentiments. That recruiting class was ridiculous and we finally got lucky. Had they all panned out we'd have the most dominate pitching staff where our midweek starter could actually be an ace or day 2 starter.

Until LSU gets at least 3 solid starting pitchers on the mound we'll never win Omaha. When we had Coleman, Renaudo and Ross that was a really damn good 3. Ross was probably the last good day 3 starter we had.