Revisiting Jay’s #1 Recruiting Class

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Definitely not the No 1 class in hindsight.

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What class is better?

Kling and Neal so far haven’t lived up to the hype. It happens man.

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Definitely not the No 1 class in hindsight. Bad evals or bad development?

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You seem extremely sure of that who do you think was the #1 class?

Shores was pumping 99 before he got hurt and was likely going to be our 3rd starter

Jones just finished top 10 in the country in home runs

Guidry and Herring were both major contributors to a national championship

Moffet, Frey and Neal all have huge potential

And he brought in Tommy Tanks and Paul Skenes in that transfer class as well.

What was that again about bad evaluations?

Not every baseball player pans out to be as good as they were projected… baseball is nothing like other sports but one similarity is that you can go look at top 10 recruits from any 2005+ football player and plenty of those guys never even become good d1 guys.

High school to SEC baseball is a huge jump. Id say bigger than SEC to any Minor league baseball level.

Jones - great high school player, his jump from 2023 to 2024 was Huge
Big amount of Development.

Shores - Will be an all star next year / will be a major leaguer one day if he goes in the draft (been hurt most of college career unfortunately)

Neal - shows signs of a great player is young for his class and immediately started as a 17 year old freshman at the most prestigious baseball college. (On a team that won a natty)

Noot - great arm been hurt entire college career.

Moffitt - great arm was really making strides this year but because of the early season struggles didn’t have the chance to throw him in as often because every game became most win.


I can keep going down the list. The program has plenty of talent and plenty of guys are being developed. You will come across big name recruits who don’t ever figure it out or take longer to be developed it happens.

You shouldn’t expect a national championship every year. Baseball is harder to win a national championship than any other major sport because it takes a bit of luck as well.

You can however expect the post season every year and Jay Johnson has been great at that. And he works harder than any other coach I’ve ever seen when it comes to recruiting and putting his time into his job.

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What class is better?

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He has no clue

Takes like these make me feel better when I hit the submit button on a post shitting on Yeskie.

Thanks.

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Player BA Rank

Kling #19
Shores #23
Neal #29
Noot #33
Jones #47
Guidry #65
Bronzini #153
Moffitt #193
Herring #198
Frey #230
Bucknam #235
Ruddell #295
Paul #384
Primeaux #500


Jones and Herring have produced. Guidry has a role. Couple key pitching injuries obviously. A lot of busts.

Definitely not the No 1 class in hindsight. Bad evals or bad development?

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Or is this just a case of a clueless idiot rushing to judgement and trying find something LSU related to crap on?

I mean the prime crop of this class was

Kling
Shores
Neal
Noot
Jones

Jones is a beast
Shores was a beast before his injury.
Noot get an incomplete because he really has been injured for 2 years.

so we are back to where we started with all of these conversation: Neal and Kling aren’t living up to hype so this class sucks.

NVM Herring who wasn’t as highly touted just had a sub 2 era.

the idea that this class is some kind of bust because we only have 2 sophemores make an all conference team is a bit much

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Definitely not the No 1 class in hindsight.

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Jay doesn't work for BA, PG or CB.
He keeps getting top 5 HS and portal classes it will come together and make you look a fool.

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Rank

Kling #19
Shores #23
Neal #29
Noot #33
Jones #47
Guidry #65
Bronzini #153
Moffitt #193
Herring #198
Frey #230
Bucknam #235
Ruddell #295
Paul #384
Primeaux #500

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Shores was a monster last year before the injury. Noot hasn't pitched yet due to his injury. Neal has been decent and could take the next step. Jones has been great. Herring has been the best reliever on the team the last two years. Guidry closed out the national championship. Looks like a pretty good class to me. The injuries to Shores and Noot were huge though. Both had/have big time starter potential.