re: LSU Baseball 2021 (and beyond) Recruiting Thread - OLD THREAD

Today I was looking up the stats of a Kansas player that entered the portal yesterday and I learned that Manny Miles was playing baseball for Kansas this season. He only pitched a third of an inning, but still that's pretty cool.

Hughes and Walker enter transfer portal

I think Willis, Gunter, Biggs might be next
Lagarigue will likely lose his spot as walk-on

In 31 innings in NWAC JUCO baseball over 2 seasons (NWAC is the JUCO league that encompasses Oregon and Washington), Brady struck out 38 and walked 14. In this most recent abbreviated season he had struck out 9 and walked 2 in 7 innings. He only gave up 4 earned runs in those 31 innings. He had a WHIP of just over 1 for his career there.

I can't find anything on how hard he throws or anything like that. He's 5'9", 155.

In other transfer news, we may be in on a RHP/MIF transferring from a Missouri Valley Conference school. Highly touted prospect out of HS. ETA: Mason Auer is the player, he was in this mornings update of the transfer portal this morning. He is at Missouri State. Perfect Game had him ranked as the 37th best incoming freshman in the country. He touches 96, but sits 92-95. It looks like he's also considering a few JUCOs.

The Louisville transfer that I like is probably headed to an SEC east school. It doesn't look like we were on him.

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How are schools going to part with this years signing class?

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I know a lot of people are expecting a flood to the JUCO ranks but it hasn't really started happening yet.

I've seen three JUCO flips since the relief announcement was made, a Florida commit and a Miami commit are going to Wabash Valley, and a Michigan State commit is now going to Iowa Western.

Those all could also be draft moves as well, not completely related to the relief announcement, as those are a couple of heavily scouted and usually very talented JUCO programs.

I think you will see a lot of h.S. draft prospects that aren't high academic kids go JUCO. This way they can be draft eligible as soon as the MLB loosens back up next year to up to 20 rounds. The higher academic kids will stick with their commitments. A lot of recruited walk ons are going to get pushed out of a roster spot this year and will have to redshirt (greyshirt?) or go JUCO.

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think you will see a lot of h.S. draft prospects that aren't high academic kids go JUCO. This way they can be draft eligible as soon as the MLB loosens back up next year to up to 20 rounds. The higher academic kids will stick with their commitments. A lot of recruited walk ons are going to get pushed out of a roster spot this year and will have to redshirt (greyshirt?) or go JUCO.

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Ive seen some MLB pundits say that this could affect the draft for a total of 3 years.

I don’t agree with that assessment but it’s certainly a possibility.

There’s not going to be a sensible solution any time soon. Everyone is too wired up and freaked out

LSU commit Brooks Rice will be pitching in the newly formed Mississippi Collegiate League. One of two new leagues in the state of Mississippi going on this summer.

Hughes announced on Twitter he’s transferring to Rice University.

A JUCO catcher we were evaluating earlier, Leyton Pinkney from Northwest Florida State, committed to Houston today. I don't know how heavily we were still recruiting him.