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

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Missed Jake Brown being added to the list at #93. Surprised Kade Anderson doesn’t get more draft hype

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He hasn't pitched since his JR year when he went down with TJ. I'm not surprised at all. Figure that pretty much made him a lock to go to school.

Brock Slaton committed to Tulane
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Portal name to watch
Chase Gerbrick
Lipscomb Infielder

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Anxiously awaiting the rest of the assignments. Plan on making a few trips out to the cape this summer

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Here's what I have so far for the Cape:

Josh Stevenson Wareham
Josh Pearson Brewster
Griffin Herring Chatham
Gavin Guidry Falmouth
Jared Jones Brewster
Brady Neal YD Red Sox

I'm guessing Team USA, but he wasn't there last year which I thought was weird.

Yea you'd think he would wanna get some cuts in with wood bat before his draft year. Altho i think Team USA still allows you to use wood if you prefer.

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I’ve got a dumb question. What’s up with SWLA and elite prep baseball? I know it’s been this way for decades, but I can’t understand why there is so much talent consistently in such a small area. According to MaxPreps, 3 of the top 15 high school baseball teams are within 30 minutes of each other.

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couple reasons

1) unlike a lot of the rest of the state, there is a big emphasis on it, but in tournament ball most kids are still almost forced to play football and other sports and do not specialize until high school

2) emphasis on extreme hard work around here when it comes to baseball. kids see the tradition at barbe, sam houston, sulphur, st louis and the smaller powers and they see what it takes. they start hanging around the programs early and they see the dedication so they start doing it.

3) because of the above, kids train year around for it. notice i didnt say play year around as the travel teams in SWLA tend to play less overall games than many other areas but tend to train and practice more. lot more emphasis on training than playing

4) because these kids see what it takes many start strength and conditioning early, very early with many starting at 7 & 8 even. they also work around the house a lot and see how big they actually need to be.

for a metro area of 250k its insance. 6 teams from calc parish in the semi plus kinder and south beau. over 20 d1 prospects and prolyl another 25 going to play juco or d2/d3.

also prolly the biggest factors is awesome coaching. Barbe, St Louis and Sam Houston have amazign coaching. these coaches understand the importance of the off season and run year around weight lifting, they run off season velo/long toss programs, run bat speed programs etc etc. there is a huge focus on development and its tracked. all the schools above have their own pitching coach, own hitting coach and coaches that really really beleive in the weights. look at the size of many of the kids compared to other schools. its very very evident when st louis plays, only stm was as big really. in 5a less so once you are deep in playoffs but district games....very obvious.


so combo of things...high level coaching, elite work ethic and tradition/passion for the game.


oh and the 3 are within 10 miles of each other and st louis is within that 10 mile radius too.

Paxton Kling is rostered for YD as well.

Unfortunately Sulphur will never get politics out of the way of sports. It’s just handed down through the generations…….
I fear they will be way down when this group of seniors leave.

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Gavin be the second baseman then possibly transition to SS as a Jr

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Guidry draft eligible after next year