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Posted on 6/14/16 at 11:34 am to lsu2006
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Sidebar: Who is wearing #25 on the basketball team next year?
Posted on 6/14/16 at 12:21 pm to birddog14
K-Rob without a doubt
Posted on 6/14/16 at 12:34 pm to LSURussian
Good scoop Russian, you earned your keep this week.
I tend to think you are right btw, baseball is mental enough without this kind of extra pressure.
Keep it up
I tend to think you are right btw, baseball is mental enough without this kind of extra pressure.
Keep it up
Posted on 6/14/16 at 12:38 pm to LSURussian
It feels about as genuine as the Boot trophy in football. If I'm Kramer, I politely decline.
Posted on 6/14/16 at 12:46 pm to LSURussian
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Hopefully, no one. The number 8 "tradition" needs to die. All it is doing now is creating tension on the team and putting undue pressure on the player wearing it.
I agree with you completely.
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Make Chris Guillot wear it.....
Posted on 6/14/16 at 12:51 pm to LSURussian
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ETA: Fraley had the second most at bats and second highest number of hits on the team. Yet he only had the 6th highest number of rbi's. I wonder if, when he came to bat with runners in scoring position, did he think to himself, "I've got to drive in these runs to prove I deserve wearing #8."??? We'll never know but he became Mr. Un-clutch in driving in runs for the season. He was much better in 2015 at driving in runs. Last season he drove in only one less rbi on 18 fewer hits and 42 fewer at bats.
do you know what his average was w RISP each year?
Posted on 6/14/16 at 12:53 pm to LSURussian
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Fraley had the second most at bats and second highest number of hits on the team. Yet he only had the 6th highest number of rbi's.
Of course he did... He was the 2-hole hitter and ALL these stats make sense. The 3,4,5 hitters SHOULD be your RBI leaders.
WOW...
Posted on 6/14/16 at 12:53 pm to LSURussian
Delete (double post)
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Posted on 6/14/16 at 12:57 pm to LSURussian
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Make Chris Guillot wear it.
Speaking of Guillot, anyone see him take his shirt off at the game Sunday night in the 8th inning and started waving it around? Left his undershirt on, but I was cracking up watching that.
Posted on 6/14/16 at 1:29 pm to BIWO
I never knew this was even a thing
Posted on 6/14/16 at 1:53 pm to birddog14
Easy, Nolan Cain. Will give us a rough estimate of how many runners he will send home to get thrown out.
Posted on 6/14/16 at 1:54 pm to LSURussian
The "tradition" of wearing number 8 was started by the players and continued by the players the last 5-6 years. If they determine they want to keep it going or end it, the decision is theirs to make and not ours as fans.
It does not matter to me at all. I consider it to be like naming a captain - a player whose teammates look up to as a leader.
Now that the season is over, you can ask him again what he thought about during his at bats.
Hitting behind Stevenson, Laird, Scivicque, and Chinea in 2015 vs. hitting behind Duplantis, Freeman, and Papierski in 2016 was a much bigger factor in his RBI production than your conspiracy theory about his mental anguish for wearing his jersey number.
It does not matter to me at all. I consider it to be like naming a captain - a player whose teammates look up to as a leader.
quote:
did he think to himself, "I've got to drive in these runs to prove I deserve wearing #8."??? We'll never know
Now that the season is over, you can ask him again what he thought about during his at bats.
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he became Mr. Un-clutch in driving in runs for the season. He was much better in 2015 at driving in runs.
Hitting behind Stevenson, Laird, Scivicque, and Chinea in 2015 vs. hitting behind Duplantis, Freeman, and Papierski in 2016 was a much bigger factor in his RBI production than your conspiracy theory about his mental anguish for wearing his jersey number.
Posted on 6/14/16 at 2:14 pm to 81Tiger
quote:Yes, it was.
The "tradition" of wearing number 8 was started by the players
quote:No, it's not. Not now. The coaches decided who got to wear the number 8 this past season. I don't know if Katz "willed" his number to Bregman personally when he left or if the coaches made that decision.
and continued by the players
quote:It's unlikely I'll ever speak to him again.
Now that the season is over, you can ask him again what he thought about during his at bats.
quote:So explain why Duplantis, who hit behind Freeman and Papeirski and in front of Fraley, had more rbi's than Fraley.
vs. hitting behind Duplantis, Freeman, and Papierski in 2016 was a much bigger factor in his RBI production
quote:You obviously don't know what that term means.....
conspiracy theory
quote:Your two replies in this thread to me obviously contradict your statement.
It does not matter to me at all.
Posted on 6/14/16 at 2:58 pm to LSURussian
You spoke to a player, shared the conversation with us, and now you are catching some grief because some don't like what he said.
Geez
Geez
Posted on 6/14/16 at 3:26 pm to doubleb
quote:You may not have noticed but that's common on here. Almost anytime a poster has first hand information about the baseball team, many of the other posters get their feelings hurt and start criticizing that poster. I guess they feel left out or something.
ou spoke to a player, shared the conversation with us, and now you are catching some grief
It's not like I had a private audience with the Pope, it's just college baseball players.
I waited to share that conversation I had with Fraley until after the season was over because, 1) I didn't want to give the negatigers ammunition to criticize the kid every time he failed to drive in a run, and, 2) I kept hoping he would break out of his un-clutch slump and start delivering rbi's.
Don't think I didn't recall his words every time he failed to get a hit with runners in scoring position.
And I don't know for sure if his wearing #8 had anything to do with his lack of rbi production. It could just be a coincidence.
But why take that chance with future players? Like you said earlier, there's enough pressure on these kids as it is.
Posted on 6/14/16 at 3:28 pm to LSURussian
Kramer and Jake are roommates and friends also. That's another reason I would decline if I was him. It would be different if passed to an underclassman from a departing leader.
Posted on 6/14/16 at 3:39 pm to RGJ18
the tradition started when Mahtook handed down #8 to Katz. When the player that is wearing it leaves he hands it down to the next guy. had nothing to do with PM picking who wears #8
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