re: LSU Baseball 2024 (and beyond) Recruiting Thread OLD THREAD

I’ll add Bateman to the list Monday. We truly are taking the approach that they can’t possibly draft everyone in the 2024 class.

Draft is different, more importantly

For reference here is the commits perfect game ranking, keep in mind the PG ranking is ONLY against other high school players where as this draft ranking would obviously be against college players too. I put in the 2023 slot values of those rankings as well.

#12 ($5.0M) - Konnor Griffin (#2 PG)
#36 ($2.4M) - Cam Caminiti (#9 PG)
#74 ($975k) - William Schmidt (#15 PG)
#82 ($860k) - Cade Arrambide (#6 PG)
#83 ($847k) - Derek Curiel (#3 PG)
#120 ($553k) - Boston Bateman (#62 PG)
#130 ($502k) - David Hogg II (#50 PG)
#150 ($413k) - Kale Fountain (#78 PG)
#160 ($374k) - Casan Evans (#58 PG)
#165 ($358k) - Ryan Costello (#97 PG)
#212 ($242k) - Michael Ryan (#108 PG)
#220 ($226k) - Daniel Arambula (#69 PG)
#227 ($217k) - Mavrick Rizy (#99 PG)
#228 ($215k) - Landon Victorian (#44 PG)
#258 ($184k) - John Pearson (#201 PG)


Just looking at those relative to PG rankings, you start to feel real good about guys like Curiel and Arrambide, Schmidt doesnt hurt there either. Also Arambula and Victorian are way down from where you might expect.

Champion is #130 and Gonzalez #168 in PG rankings and they arent Top 300 here which is nice.

I like this draft ranking if thats true, but I wont get my hopes up yet

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Arrambide

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in particular had a huge summer. The discussion with him now is 'how high'?


This is best class in LSU history. Some of the guys will indeed go pro and i can already envision the melt on the Rant, but even the ones that do make it to campus should be instant impact.

I think that's why Priester was brought back into the fold and why we're still looking at 2024 HS catchers.

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This is best class in LSU history. Some of the guys will indeed go pro and i can already envision the melt on the Rant, but even the ones that do make it to campus should be instant impact.

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A national guy for PG called it the best class he's seen in his time at PG after Bateman committed.

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The slot values added to the list is great context, I appreciate that

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And a lot of those high school kids would realistically have to sign for over slot in many cases being LSU commits as we've seen in the past, so things will be interesting even though we're talking about something way way out still.

I think if we only lose 6 guys to the draft from high school it will be a pretty monster class. Lose only 5 guys and you're talking best ever class level for LSU being brought in. Lose only 4 guys and it may be the best class anyone has ever brought in

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Does anyone know which recruits may be considered tough signs or is it too early to know yet?

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It's still too early

Every year there's a lock to make it to campus only to be taken by a team (Michael Kennedy 22) and then polar opposite (Cameron Johnson 23) who everyone thinks to themselves is going sign or at the very least is heading to JUCO only to quietly make it to campus.

I agree with the posters above. This class is so loaded you could shoot it with a shotgun and what's left would still make up a spectacular class.

Honestly would love to be able to land all the LA guys on campus, and then a few of the OOS ones. That’d be a really strong class in itself. I’m not really sure what the expectation should be tho

The reclassification to got college and be a young junior is something that’s we’re going to get a better handle on once Neal goes through the draft. Robert Moore from Arkansas was another one that did it, and obviously Christian Little.

I’m interested to see how the model heavy teams look at Neal.