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

You guys remember when he used a TexAgs source to say if Kelly was offered the Michigan job he’d take it? He just enjoys the attention he gets from acting like he knows stuff the average fan doesn’t.

it could still happen

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I did want to ask about the big kid, Kale Fountain. Is he a guy that y’all think could hold down 3rd base from the get go?

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I think he can but I don't think that is the ideal situation. I think you really would like Braswell to come back and have Dickinson at 3B with Milam at 2B. If you end up with Jones back also, that is a very solid infield.

He got into it with me on his morning scone show last year during the CWS (I was commenting in the chat) over Travinski. He was talking about Milazzo replacing him in the lineup because of his defense, and I brought up how I thought it was pretty clear Travinski was hurt. Matt proceeded to go on the offensive against me, thinking that I was arguing whether or not Milazzo replaced him for defensive purposes. But that was never my point. I just said Hayden was hurt.

So, he tells me that Hayden was not hurt. I said "yes, he is, I saw him holding his side and wincing while walking off the field, multiple times". He again insisted I was wrong, and that he was replaced for defensive reasons. Again, that was not my point.

Fast forward a few days from there, and he was talking about Travinski again. This time, he was saying that a scout told him Travinski was getting nothing but fastballs all year, and that was why he was having success. I thought this was a puzzling comment, as it clearly wasn't true, because teams aren't dumb enough to just keep throwing fastballs to a guy if he keeps hitting, and I know I saw him hit offspeed pitches. So I chimed in again, and simply said something like "he definitely saw more than just fastballs".

So Matt, because the subject matter involved Travinski again, and because he remembered me from our disagreement a few days before, assumed that I was somehow connected personally with Hayden and accused me of being defensive. Which I flatly stated was false. Then he said "well, no disrespect, but I'm going to take the scout's word". I don't know if he really spoke to a scout, but I'll take his word on it. However, this scout, I don't know how much film he actually watched, but I don't have to be a scout to see a breaking ball with my own two eyes.

Anyway, Jay Johnson had confirmed in an interview the day before that Travinski was indeed injured, and so since Matt decided to disregard my opinions out of hand, I brought up our disagreement from before and how he was proven wrong. Know what he said? "Jay lies." He used examples of Jay not being forthright about injuries to "prove" his point. Only problem with that, is Jay never lied about someone being injured, if they were not. He just didn't give straight answers to questions about known injuries.


He just couldn't admit he was wrong. Other than that, I've never had a big issue with him. I don't take any of these media types at their word when it comes to facts. It's just entertainment for me.

There is a difference in holding down a spot as a freshman out of necessity and coming in good enough as a freshman to take a spot. I took it as the guy asking about Fountain at 3B as if he had to could he handle it as a freshman.

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There is a difference in holding down a spot as a freshman out of necessity and coming in good enough as a freshman to take a spot.

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You mean to tell me that Will Hellmers starting opening day at 3B was out of necessity?

As far as if we’re done in the portal, I’d say we are until after the Draft, then we might see someone like Nolan Wilson commit if we need another catcher.

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No freshman is holding down any spot from day 1 ever. I'm not sure why people always continue to put freshmen in their projected lineup. You know what freshmen held down their spot from day 1? Crews and Bregman. I'm sure you could say a couple more and I'm only going back 15 or so years but you get the point. Any freshman that earns a spot at any point in the season is a bonus. Every time, every year.

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I get where you are coming from, but Milam pretty much did this past season. Yes he literally didnt start the very first game, but he started games 2-4 that first weekend because Jay was still experimenting at 2B but he ended up starting 60 games over the course of the season rarely coming out.

I dont know how next season will turn out but it never totally surprises me if a freshmen gets a chance very early and holds that spot down over the season. Would Kale Fountain or Curiel do that? Who knows but I wouldnt put it entirely past them. I think with what Jay has added in the infield at this point it's probably more difficult for Fountain to break into but I think there's a real chance Curiel could impress early on at CF because I just dont see us having a CF type if Stanfield doesnt make it in. I think Stanfield could be the reason Curiel either does potentially start early on (goes in draft) or doesnt (makes it here) in the OF.

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You mean to tell me that Will Hellmers starting opening day at 3B was out of necessity?

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That was neither. That was just one of those Manieri moves like Will Safford in game 1 of a regional at 2B.

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LHP
13. Anderson
14. Primeaux
15. Herring

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We are pretty thin at LHP. We may need Brown to get some work. I'm hopeful, but not convinced Herring comes back.

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Unknown
40. Trenton Lape
41. Dylan Thompson

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Lape is on campus as of this week. He's working the youth baseball camp with some coaches and teammates (Bras, Frey, Milam, and Mic Paul).

My informant (son) said one of the players 'had a broken arm". That could mean anything from an arm in a sling to having fingers taped up.