re: LSU Baseball 2022 (and beyond) Recruiting Thread (OLD THREAD, PLEASE STICKY NEW ONE)

Cliff notes from the interview. I will try to stick to things that are not already discussed or in the players profile.

Ackenhausen - could have massive impact next year

Applebey- TE in football, 97 MPH FB

Bronzini - High priority for the staff, 3 pitches, starter potential.

Bucknam - drafted 16th round last year, good curveball

Crawford - There is fast and then there is Crawford fast. Every hits creats anxiety for the other team. game changing speed, great person

Guidry - will play two ways, twitchy and explosive. Super confident and competitive. Really excited about coming to LSU.

Herring - Video game numbers last year. High intellect, great worker, motivated.

Jones - Great size, unbelievable feel for hitting, terrific arm, leader

Kennedy - Strongly committed to LSU. Top of rotation type player.

Kling - Very, very talented. Speed, power and unlimited potential.

Misiorowski- Future MLB, your hair stands up when he throws FB.

Moffit - Big, strong, great command, excels in classroom

Neal - As a complete of player as you will find in this class. Terrific skillset, leader and very good offensively.

Noot - Electric FB, very good curve. Early contributor
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Paul - Elite runner, 6.4 - 6.5, One of the best CF I have evaluated.

Romero - Two sisters are all americans in softball. Dad jokingly says he is the third best SS in the family. #1 rated SS in the country. Best left handed hitter in the country.

Ruddell - 2nd best player in La. behind Guidry.

Shores - One of the best pitchers in the country. Checks all the boxes, leader, character, teammate, talent.

Seravo - Best pitcher at Tx. all star game.

Snelling - 4 star LB but won't play football. 94 MPH lefty, elite competitor.

Toman - Switch hitter, great offensively and defensively. Early contributor.

Thoughts on NIL, passing on the pros - No better place in the country for NIL as a baseball player. No better place to develop. Best baseball weight room in the country, Many long term major leaguers went to college first. This class values and education. Some guys in this class will turn down big money to come to LSU. Can't get to Omaha without elite talent, so you have to take chances with big recruits.

Interesting that his younger brother would commit to Vandy at basically the same time.

Frick vandy and their full scholarship offers

I'm starting to feel like we're close to landing another 2023 lefty. Big time kid from Maryland, Cameron Johnson. I have no inside information, I just feel like he's close to committing to us.

Yeah, I think that happened a while back but I don’t know exactly when. He has a teammmate named Cam Jones with a similar Twitter handle that just signed with Maryland. And he retweet’s a lot of stuff to congratulate that kid, so it’s been a chore trying to figure out his situation.

Ryan Sleeper from Wabash Valley committed to Nebraska today. He was another guy we were eying but after the other 4 JUCO pitchers we got I don't know how high a priority he was. I hadn't heard much about him in a while.

He was a teammate with Bollman last year and with Applebey this year. Wabash just puts out so many players it's absurd.

Would be huge imagine an outfield of Kling Crawford and crews

If you had a list of who you think makes it to campus could you share it. Or is it to early to tell

I agree with you some of these kids will tell you the right thing up until they choose between money and college

Just a couple of things I picked up on Johnson's interview. He mentioned Mic Paul as being one of the best Centerfielders he has evaluated. So if we don't get Crawford, I still feel really good about our outfield.

As far as who makes it to campus. I also noticed he spoke about the how excited Gavin Guidry and LHP Kennedy were about going to LSU. That makes me feel good about our chances with those two.

I believe Toman was mentioned as being the son of a College Coach, which should help our chances with getting him to campus.