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

Just last year Tenn started about like lsu did in conf play and rebounded to make Omaha

They are losing as much as lsu lost last season so I expect a slower start out of vols and they will be better later in season
Championship hangovers are real and the fan expectations are gonna be sky high as they should be

It will be very interesting to see who finishes with more success, Johnson at LSU or Vitello at Tennessee. The fact that is even a question says everything you need to know about Vitello.

This year's tennessee team had a great recipe for a CWS winner.

It was largely built through the traditional recruiting route. It had holdovers from previous Omaha teams. It had long terms starters with a ton of SEC experience. They had good team chemistry after some missteps in prior years on that front.

And probably most importantly, it had a lot of guys still left from 2022.

They knew how to win, they knew what it felt like to fall short, they knew how to operate with a target on their back.

While it will create some institutional knowledge, they're losing so much that they'll hit a rough patch, but just like at LSU, it will restart the cycle. The rough patch will feed the success.

Yeah so much is discounted on these big runs on everything just clicking at the right time and sometimes very unexpectedly.

Look at our run in 2023, everyone outside of LSU will talk about Skenes and Crews but to the title it took a lot of guys having their best season ever here and it was a perfect storm of that happening for a number of players.

- Jobert has a big leap from 2022 to 2023, he went from a .246 hitter who had power to a .301 hitter who had similar power

- Beloso is probably the craziest story of a guy everyone basically forgot about after his freshman year here in 2019, he got a lot of playing time in 2021 only to be pretty bad (.226 hitter), misses the entire true senior season the following year...then comes out in 2023 and hits .326 with a over 1.000 OPS absolutely being a monster

Then you have the guys who still dont necessarily have the good or great season but just step up and have huge impacts when it matters - Pearson's huge catch in the CWS; Hurd frankly sucking most of the season but comes out in the CWS and gives up just 3 ER over 12 innings against Wake Forest and the national title final against Florida (2 ER in 6 IP there).

People dont like to talk about the unexpected frankly a bit of luck if you will, but thats what it takes to have a national title team. It's not just about the best players, it's about guys who havent necessarily had that impact but suddenly do.

Pearson’s catch B9 Gm1 vs Florida

If UF wins game 1, you probably have to bring Hurd back on shorter rest to pitch game 2 and who knows who pitches game 3, likely Skenes on short rest as well.

Jackson Cleveland, RHP, Lamar, SO, #445

Just got onto the LSU radar has committed to Miami

Also hitting the portal (but not connected to LSU yet)

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Joe Doyle,
TRANSFER: Clemson 3B Nolan Nawrocki has entered the transfer portal. Nawrocki is a Top-100 prospect for the 2025 Draft at
@FSS_PLUS

Nawrocki slashed .264/.352/.400 with four homers and 16 SB in just 36 games this spring.

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Yeah we can go get him…. Those stats play

Let’s hope he doesn’t end up at state

Cade Fisher is in the portal and we are on him

Cade Fisher, LHP, Florida, SO #2
2024: 7.13, 59.1 IP, 67H, 29BB, 76K, 1.618 WHIP
2023: 3.10, 49.1 IP, 51H, 13BB, 48K, 1.297 WHIP