Josh Smith

I know we've been really spoiled at ss for about a decade now so it's hard to take it in context. Josh had a shite game (until the bot 8). That was probably the worst game defensively I can remember an lsu ss playing in a long time. I'm still confident that he will be legit in that spot but I'd be lying if I said it didn't worry me at least a little bit. That level of play will lose us a lot of games. He was great at 3rd last year and all reports say he's great at short so you just gotta hope it was 1st game jitters. Really the entire infield looked pretty bad. We looked like we had new starters in every infield position. Bryce wasn't terrible at catcher but hopefully we won't really have to rely on him much there. He is basically our 3rd string catcher. I'm OK with growing pains while the players get healthy and acclimated.