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Jones Needs One More Year...
Posted on 6/26/25 at 6:37 am
Posted on 6/26/25 at 6:37 am
Book mark this post.
Yes, he has had great 'moments' with LSU. Not taking anything away from the young man.
Jones needs another year at LSU with a HEAVY focus on offense. If he leaves for the BIGS, his name will disappear unfortunately. No emotion, simple objectivity.
Hope and pray I am wrong if he leaves!
GEAUX TIGERS - JONES
Yes, he has had great 'moments' with LSU. Not taking anything away from the young man.
Jones needs another year at LSU with a HEAVY focus on offense. If he leaves for the BIGS, his name will disappear unfortunately. No emotion, simple objectivity.
Hope and pray I am wrong if he leaves!
GEAUX TIGERS - JONES
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Posted on 6/26/25 at 6:39 am to HuntinFishin25
He will develop fine under the right coaching.
Selfishly, I hope he comes back, but as a Sr. he loses a lot of leverage if he doesn't have obvious improvement.
Selfishly, I hope he comes back, but as a Sr. he loses a lot of leverage if he doesn't have obvious improvement.
Posted on 6/26/25 at 6:45 am to HuntinFishin25
quote:
Jones Needs One More Year...
1) it isn't happening.
2) they have coaches in the minors
3) he can play more and develop in MiLB
Posted on 6/26/25 at 6:47 am to HuntinFishin25
If he comes back he will get the homer title
Posted on 6/26/25 at 6:53 am to HuntinFishin25
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Jones needs another year at LSU
Jones will not have the ability to negotiate a higher bonus from mlb teams if he stays.
The point if MiLB is to develop players. Signing a contract will not developmentally stall his career.
Posted on 6/26/25 at 6:58 am to HuntinFishin25
Jones isn’t making MLB regardless of if he gets coached by LSUs hitting coach next year or MiLB coaching. He certainly needs to go now & make the most signing bonus he can before moving on to other ventures.
Posted on 6/26/25 at 6:58 am to HuntinFishin25
There's a lot wrong with your post, but just considering the fact that the majority of players don't make it to the bigs, you're not really going out on a limb here.
Posted on 6/26/25 at 7:10 am to HuntinFishin25
What’s bad is, if he stays then whoever drafts him next season will low ball him just like they did with dugas, he’s gonna leave due to that reason imo, he has leverage if he leaves now.
Posted on 6/26/25 at 7:12 am to Mats86
So if he comes back and hits 35hr and has 105 RBI he will lose leverage? .....doubtful
Posted on 6/26/25 at 7:12 am to Keaux10
Agree, he will leave. The point of my post is he is not ready.
Posted on 6/26/25 at 7:17 am to jacksajester
he honestly might make more coming back to LSU
Posted on 6/26/25 at 7:19 am to HuntinFishin25
quote:
Jones needs another year at LSU with a HEAVY focus on offense. If he leaves for the BIGS, his name will disappear unfortunately. No emotion, simple objectivity.
and 1 more year at LSU would make him an MLB all star?
Posted on 6/26/25 at 7:20 am to HuntinFishin25
If he stays he loses all negotiating leverage with whoever drafts him. Ain’t happening.
Posted on 6/26/25 at 7:21 am to HuntinFishin25
It will all depend on where he is drafted and the signing bonus/contract for that spot.
If he thinks he can improve on that spot with one more year then he may come back. If not, then I support him signing and doing what’s best for him…..
If he thinks he can improve on that spot with one more year then he may come back. If not, then I support him signing and doing what’s best for him…..
Posted on 6/26/25 at 7:25 am to theliontamer
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he honestly might make more coming back to LSU
Some of you have a very very distorted view of baseball NIL and what players are actually getting. We arent running $10M, or even $5m rosters guys.
We arent getting guys 7 figure 1 year deals
Jones probably barely made six figures of NIL this season if that.
Jones would be forfeiting hundreds of thousands of dollars by coming back for his senior season regardless of how well that season went.
This post was edited on 6/26/25 at 7:35 am
Posted on 6/26/25 at 7:26 am to burke985
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So if he comes back and hits 35hr and has 105 RBI he will lose leverage?
Yes
Posted on 6/26/25 at 7:27 am to HuntinFishin25
I said this not too long ago as well.
Coming back to play for LSU with a decent NIL package and break the all time home run record will be better for his life long legacy than minor league ball for a few years
Coming back to play for LSU with a decent NIL package and break the all time home run record will be better for his life long legacy than minor league ball for a few years
Posted on 6/26/25 at 7:27 am to burke985
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So if he comes back and hits 35hr and has 105 RBI he will lose leverage? .....doubtful
He loses leverage because he loses leverage, this isnt debatable. He cant say "I'm going back to college for another year" - its pro baseball or starting another career at that point and because of that teams will request you sign for peanuts if you want to sign with them. This is how the draft has worked forever now.
If you want a significant bonus you need have leverage, period.
Posted on 6/26/25 at 7:29 am to burke985
He could come back and hit 50 homers and he’d still get less money. Thats how the mlb draft works
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