re: 2013 LSU Baseball signee Christian Pelaez in Florida 3A Final

A little bit on the JUCO kids we've signed...

- David Palladino the other day threw 5.2 innings, which is 17 outs, and struck out 13 batters for Howard College. He's 7-3, with 6 complete games in 10 starts, and in 70.1 innings he's given up 57 hits and 31 walks with 99 strikeouts (12.67 per nine innings) and an ERA of 2.18. At 6-9 and 270 with a 96-97 MPH fastball he might get drafted too high to make it here, but if he doesn't that might be your Sunday starter.

- Brady Domangue is 13-2 with a 1.26 ERA for LSU-Eunice. In 92.2 innings, he's given up just 75 hits, walked 25 and struck out 105 batters (9.48 per nine innings). Six complete games in 15 starts.

- Zac Person is 8-0 with a 3.14 ERA at LSU-Eunice. In 71.2 innings he's given up 51 hits and 41 walks (which is too many), but he's had 87 K's (10.93 per nine innings).

- Connor Hale is hitting .358 for State College of Florida Manatee-Sarasota, with 17 doubles, 3 triples and one home run. In 50 games he's got 58 RBI. He's also stolen 9 of 11 bases.

- Kade Scivique is on a horrible team at Southwest Mississippi JC, but he leads that club with a .321 batting average. He has 12 doubles and four homers, with 39 RBI's in 140 at-bats, numbers which are good but not great until you look at the fact that nobody else has more than six doubles, the team has 5 HR's (he's hit all but one) and the next best RBI guy only has 22. Safe to say teams aren't giving Scivique much to hit, though he's only got 13 walks. But has hasn't thrown out anybody trying to steal, according to the stats.