re: LSU Baseball 2023 (and beyond) Recruiting Thread - Old Thread - Please unpin

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I know, I was kidding. I think I've seen some 2027 kids getting interest. They're 12/13 years old. Insane, but I'm starting to understand the projections the more baseball that I watch. It's still wildly imperfect, but I understand it a little better now.

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there is quite a few 27 kids we are on. thats 8th grade.

only a couple 28 kids. but you have to understand there are kids going into 7th grade that are hitting 80 right now. Fastest 14u kids throw upper 80s/90.

when you got kids going into high school already throwing 90 with off speed, 2/4 seam then its easy to see why we are after them

same with hitters, running sub 7 in middle school with exit velocities in the mid 80s while playing with 16u teams on high school fields makes it pretty projectable.

Like i know LSU is on a couple 9th graders at barbe and atleast 1 8th grader( Jordin Griffin).

as far as 2027 kids, its more monitoring than anything to make sure they continue to progress.

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I know, I was kidding. I think I've seen some 2027 kids getting interest. They're 12/13 years old. Insane, but I'm starting to understand the projections the more baseball that I watch. It's still wildly imperfect, but I understand it a little better now.

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The thing about baseball is the tools don't get worse with age... so you can see a young kid play the game and project that if the body keeps pace, he's gonna project up.

It's one reason why I was so high on Connor Simon - having watched him play since 9/10 yo ball. By the time he went to Sheets at 12 their damn MIF played like seasoned college players.

I don't feel like I could watch a kid that young and project what they could be. I've watched kids play and seen coordination and tools that jumped out, but mostly stuff anyone could see.

A while back, watching a game of kids going into 9th grade I think, I watched a kid hit an absolute bomb of the pitcher I knew. And then the same kid threw out a kid at home plate from right field. He was much more physical than everyone else on the field and had an absolute cannon. I was able to kind his name and kept up with his career.

He was a freshman pitcher at Oregon State this past year. He was throwing low to mid 90s by the time he graduated HS. Victor Quinn is his name. It's the only time I've ever felt like a scout.

Project patttuh , what do you know about the kid from parkway coming in?

I live in Benton which is in the same parish so I may go watch him play if anyone is close and wants to go?

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MJ Seo



Really hope this kid makes it to campus

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Hopefully Guidry could be successful as a 2 way guy this season and we can use that as an advantage to getting MJ to campus.

My nephew is really good friends with the parkway kid. Hope that was helpful.

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Hopefully Guidry could be successful as a 2 way guy this season

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the more i think about it the more i think he will be a pitcher from the start and he will hit more and more as the season goes on. you are right, if his roles are handled successfully it will be a great example to show players like Seo and beyond

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Here's the current perfect game national rankings for our 2023 commits as of 8/10/22...will be interesting to see where they end up:

#9 C Blake Mitchell - TX
#28 LHP Cameron Johnson - MD
#86 3B Trenton Lape - LA
#88 LHP Kade Anderson - LA
#90 OF Ashton Larson - KS
#106 SS Steven Milam - NM
#121 RHP/SS MJ Seo - TX
#132 OF Derrick Mitchell - TX
#163 LHP Jake Brown - LA
#166 SS Austen Roellig - CA
#218 LHP Kaiden Wilson - MO
#363 OF Dallas Dale II - FL
#389 SS Ryan Kucherak - AZ
#422 SS Dylan Thompson - LA
#501-1000 LHP Jaxson Burch - LA
#501-1000 OF Griffin Cooley - LA
#501-1000 LHP Jon Cassidy Vanek - LA
'High Follow' RHP Sebastian Gonzalez - FL