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

For those that want to know some of Wes Johnson's thoughts, he was on 104.5 with Moscona this afternoon.

Matt asked him his thoughts on the draft having now been on both sides of it. He said in his opinion, if you are a HS pitcher and don't go in the first round you need to go to school.

He went on to say in his opinion there really aren't more than 5-7 HS pitchers each year that have any business going pro. They are better off being prepped in college.

He went on to say that the preceding opinion has been his opinion...not just now because he is back in college.

Wes said he was present for Grant Taylor's 12k outing in the cape, and Taylor was the first guy Wes mentioned when asked about returning pitchers. He also spoke highly of Floyd and said he will be working on improving his change up.

Short but decent interview.

Collier Cranford to Kansas

He is following a lot of other schools and their coaches/existing and new transfer players and even barstool accounts too if I’m reading correctly lol

Also, I see reports Brewers signed their 3rd pick in the draft (2nd round supplemental pick) Robert Moore for 800K. That’s 115K under slot. That’s 2 of their top 3 significantly under slot. Definitely got me nervous

This brewers page I’m looking at is actually claiming 7 of their draft picks have signed but is only giving the values so far for 2

Kinda random thought here but , if carter young wins the job at ss and gets back to his original form then that would be huge for us . Imagine getting 16 homers out of the shortstop position with our batting lineup. He’s hit 16 bombs in a season and it was his first as a starter in college I believe. I think it was his freshman or sophomore year. He fell off with just 6or7 this past season. But with jj coaching him up , you would think it would bring out the best in him , im not sure who they have as a hitting coach at vandy but I know jj is a good one and that another set of eyes on a player is always a good thing.

So imagine he’s hitting the best he’s ever hit which would have to be over .300 and 17 homers and put that with his defense with another off season of developing there as well.
Now imagine you take Jordan Thompson on last years team and remove about 15 errors and add .20 to his ba and add a handful of homers to his hr total. Putting it at12 ish

Put that with tommy ,Jp ,Morgan, crews, whoever Dhs will hit 15 bombs wether it’s dugas , beloso, or jobert. Say it’s jobert and dugas is in the outfield with Pearson and crews . Then Thompson is at second or third and if he improves his bat and glove , you’ve got a guy that can hit .310 with a possibility to hit 10 homers after development in the off season and weight room.

Now say travinski gets better behind the plate and less swing and miss. If he’s your everyday catcher then you have a guy that hits 240 with 15-23 homers .
Hell he may dh .

Point is that if we wanted to put a team out there that just hits and hits the ball hard , we could do that with this group. That’s not even counting a potential freshman or skenes
If skenes or guidry could play second and Thompson third . We’re looking at some amazing pop in the lineup

You have an incredible imagination.

It’s just incredible how much talents on the team and how good we can be if all of our guys just do the same as they have already done

The Carter Young thing is being overlooked right now because of Noot and Skenes. Young could be a key piece to our success next year.

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doubt Travinski even plays much next season.

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At this point, I’m not sure he is on the roster. He may be the odd man out with Neal, Milazzo, Jones, Frey