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re: What's the rants thoughts on LSU baseball after 3 weekends?

Posted on 3/8/21 at 7:42 am to
Posted by thunderbird1100
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Posted on 3/8/21 at 7:42 am to
The worst part is honestly we couldnt afford mistakes on a cupcake OOC schedule we've had and we've made some major mistakes. Our RPI isn't even anywhere close to the Top 100 now. After losing to Oral Roberts yesterday, losing the series, our RPI dropped from #72 to #121 now. I mean, that's really really really bad.

Our RPI was never going to be very good coming out this OOC schedule into SEC play simply because we really dont play much of anyone, but losing 3 games already, especially 2x against Oral Roberts has put us on a mighty hill climb up from here. Our RPI will go up regardless of how we do in SEC play, playing so many good teams there, but we still arent helping ourselves by losing these games against so honestly mediocre to bad teams either. This team needs a 5-0 week so bad this week, Baylor and even UTSA are much better teams than we've been playing so a weekend sweep can go a long way there.

You can tell the potential with this team, but kind of like the 2020 football team, they havent put it all together yet. It took that 2020 football team almost the whole season to put themselves together, and I hope the baseball team doesnt take as long. But you just wonder WTF was going on for that Friday game to happen the way it did against Oral Roberts then to come back on Sunday after stomping them on Saturday to throw up 1 measly run on their Sunday pitching. This team is just highly highly inconsistent at the plate and I still am trying to figure out how Hill went from being one of the top pitchers in the country to literally not being able to get outs from the very start against a frankly bad lineup.

Then of course you have the frustrating features like Mainieri thinking Bianco is somehow an every day starter and our best SS? I literally just dont get it.
This post was edited on 3/8/21 at 7:43 am
Posted by josh336
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Member since Jan 2007
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Posted on 3/8/21 at 7:50 am to
Really not shocking that a lineup of inexperience is inconsistent
Posted by geauxtigers33
Baton Rouge
Member since Jan 2014
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Posted on 3/8/21 at 7:50 am to
quote:

The worst part is honestly we couldnt afford mistakes on a cupcake OOC schedule we've had and we've made some major mistakes


The baseball selection committee very rarely looks outside of conference play when it comes to SEC teams. You can almost pinpoint seeding in any given year based off of number of wins and finish in the SEC.

ETA: this is in no way meant to defend losing a series to ORU. It is bad and should not be ok with anyone but it’s not the end of the season and probably won’t have any implications to LSU’s postseason seeding at the end of the year. It could be a sign of things to come or the things that will ultimately doom this team tho.
This post was edited on 3/8/21 at 7:54 am
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