Rank the 6 LSU Championship Baseball teams

You can't just ask that without giving your order first.

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91
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96
93

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97 09 91 00 96 93

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+1. 09 was more complete than any team, but 97 was just too potent offensively. (Not to mention the unbelievable win percentage that year.) 96 and 93 are interchangeable at the bottom.

I can buy 91 over 09, but 00 over 09? I don't get that one.

#1.... sarcasm and smartass.

I think this year's offense was just as good as any, except for maybe 97. You put those bats in the hands of Dean, Schimpf, JMitch and the these guys and they could have cranked in 150 HRs. I think we hit about 110 this season with the much smaller bats. My ranks are;

2009
1997
1991
2000
1993
1996

And the best non NC team is 1998.

The ranking will be different depending on whether you base strength based on other LSU teams, or based on other college baseball teams at that particular time.

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And the best non NC team is 1998.

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86, 87, & 90 were all better.

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86, 87, & 90 were all better.

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Explain to me what happened here, I was only a baby then. 1998 I remember we were one win away from coasting to the finals. We beat eventual champion USC in the opener but fell apart.

86 -- LSU has all the talent, but no experience
87 -- one of LSU's best teams ever, but snakebit in the CWS (thread on the 87 CWS here)
90 -- great team that swept UGA to win the SEC, but UGA eventually won the CWS

The pitchers LSU had from '87 to '93 were just incredible. Plenty of guys with long MLB careers.

Also, here are the teams with the best winning pcts., courtesy of SPEEDY ( LINK):

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1997 57-13 0.814 Skip Bertman
1986 55-14 0.797 Skip Bertman
1996 52-15 0.776 Skip Bertman
2009 56-17 0.767 Paul Mainieri
1989 55-17 0.764 Skip Bertman
1992 50-16 0.758 Skip Bertman
2000 52-17 0.7536 Skip Bertman
1993 53-17-1 0.7535 Skip Bertman
1991 55-18 0.753 Skip Bertman

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It's funny how forgotten the 1992 team is.

It's really hard to rank this kind of thing too, because there are always so many subtle (and a few not-so-subtle) changes to the game over the years. A person like me who emphasizes pitching so much in determining great teams will come up with different answers than others.

FYI, the Wikipedia page for Skip Bertman gives the records of all his teams from '84 to '01.