How did the Tigers miss on Travis Swaggerty?

Did he play shortstop in highschool?

He’s probably over 5’8” and probably weighs about 190 - doesn’t fit into our scheme

Swaggerty was undrafted out of high school

Bohm, the 3rd overall pick, was undrafted out of high school


Almost like it's hard to project 18 year olds and certain guys develop later than others or something

Not everything is a "miss" for LSU. Some guys just slip through the cracks.

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That’s one of the problems of recruiting kids so early. You end up missing on a lot of late bloomers.

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He played high school ball at Denham Springs, right in LSU's back yard. He ends up going to South Alabama and was drafted 10th overall in the MLB draft last night. Anyone have any insight as to why he didn't become a Tiger?

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Always hate these how did they miss on him questions. They only have 11.7 scholarships per tem so presumably use up 3 to 5 per year. It might be a good idea to see who was actually signed that year. Bet most if not all were much higher rated at the time. Remember they have to juggle currrent roster makeup and positions , who is likely leaving the program for the draft or graduation and projecting who might actually sign and not head to pro ball .

There are numerous players signed by LSU over the years who were from some other teams backyard and then blew up into big time prospects after getting to LSU. We have to avoid tunnel vision on one player and look at the whole picture. LSU baseball seldom gets out recruited for a Louisiana player they really want.