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re: 20 Years Ago in LSU Baseball
Posted on 3/17/17 at 11:08 am to geauxtigers33
Posted on 3/17/17 at 11:08 am to geauxtigers33
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A lot of those role players in the 90's would be like that. The twins and Bryce Adams would have been great players for lsu in the 90's. You pump them up with steroids and with those bats. Things were definitely different. Kramer, Duplantis and Freeman would have 15-20 homers each. Deichman could've hit 50+.
This doesn't make you hit the ball. Bonds was a career .300 hitter who hit a ton of doubles. He still made a lot of contact.
Steroids DO NOT make you make contact.
Adams and others strike out a shitload or make weak arse contact. Don't buy that logic at all even with lighter bats.
It was JI'm Swanki that was the difference.
Skip handled the pitchers and was a great in game called unlike Pawl.
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Posted on 3/17/17 at 11:13 am to Tiger1988
quote:Barbiers strike out rate in 1998 was 15%
Adams and others strike out a shitload or make weak arse contact. Don't buy that logic at all even with lighter bats.
Beau jordan was 15% last season
Barbier with the old bats had a slg % of .414
Beau Jordan has a slg % of .410 with the bbcor
This post was edited on 3/17/17 at 11:14 am
Posted on 3/17/17 at 11:21 am to Tiger1988
You right steroids don't make you make contact but you would forget about Bryce Adams striking out 3 times a game if he hit homeruns most of the time he did make contact. Those bats had a wider sweet spot so some of those hits that are off the end of the bat or jammed slightly that are just fly balls and weak ground out now are hit on the barrel in the 90's and are home runs or hit hard enough to get through the infield.
Posted on 3/17/17 at 11:33 am to Tiger1988
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This doesn't make you hit the ball. Bonds was a career .300 hitter who hit a ton of doubles. He still made a lot of contact.
Steroids DO NOT make you make contact.
Adams and others strike out a shitload or make weak arse contact. Don't buy that logic at all even with lighter bats.
It was JI'm Swanki that was the difference.
Skip handled the pitchers and was a great in game called unlike Pawl.
the barrels on the 1997 bats were bigger and had larger sweet spots. Hits that die 30 ft short of the wall now would have carried well over the fence in the 1990s. You didn't have to square up a pitch to hit a home run back then
Posted on 3/17/17 at 1:05 pm to Tiger1988
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This doesn't make you hit the ball. Bonds was a career .300 hitter who hit a ton of doubles. He still made a lot of contact.
Steroids DO NOT make you make contact.
No one thinks roids makes you a contact hitter. Roids take those warning track guys and make hrs hitters. Roids turn a HOF like Bonds into the best power hitter in mlb history. No one thinks roids turns the average guy into a great hitter,but they most certainly make average baseball players into great ones.
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