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

I think the roster is in good shape right now. I agree that with the catcher position they will likely see what happens with Arrambide. I think he will make it to campus and they probably pass on another catcher from the portal. Especially a catcher type like Nolan Wilson who really hasn't caught many games in the last 2 years.

From my count the roster is at 54/40 right now when subtracting all portal players and adding all incoming portal players and incoming recruits. When you subtract the definite draft guys like Tommy White, Luke Holman, Griffin, Caminit, etc I would put the count at 47/40. Of course they will have 50/50 type guys go also like Jared Jones, Herring, and some of the other high school recruits. Will have a lot better understanding of the roster after the draft next week.

Currently looking at the pitchers we can reasonably expect to get to campus, I'm seeing 20 names. We could lose 2-5 of those names if something weird happens with the draft.

Here's how a I break down potential roles, obviously they won't all pan out this way. These are ceilings. I think guys could slide down, but not really up.

Potential starters that could get you 5 innings reliably with a random 7 or 8 thrown in there:

Anderson
Mayers
Eyanson
Cowan (DE)
Herring (DE)
Hayden (DE)

Long relief/piggy back guys that can go 3-5 and spot start:

Sheerin
Ware (coming off injury, DE)
Rizy (DE)
Shores (coming off injury)

Guys that can throw multiple times in a weekend and possibly go multiple innings in one outing:
Guidry (DE)
Dorsey
Primeaux
Benge

1+ inning guys:
Noot (coming off injury)
Victorian (DE)
Evans (DE)

1 random inning here and there:
Woods (coming off injury)
Thompson
Lape (Coming off injury)

I didn't include Caminiti, Schmidt, or Bateman because I don't think they're coming to school.

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Pretty bold statement there:
- Antoine Duplantis 2016
- Josh Smith 2017
- Jake Slaughter 2017
- Eric Walker 2017
- Daniel Cabrera 2018
- Landon Marceaux 2019
- Cole Henry 2019
- Case Beloso 2019
- Cade Doughty 2020
- Alex Milazzo 2020
- Dylan Crews 2021
- Jordan Thompson 2021
- Tre Morgan 2021
- Josh Pearson 2022

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Not to mention that Monster literally took over like a week in.

See that's not bad because it allows the coach to see "who does or does not have IT" I understand the development part that Jay spoke on and how players aren't as patient.

Some will stay and maybe will breakthrough and a large section will probably leave. I mean Larson, Anderson, Milam and Brown isn't a bad haul from that last class. Hopefully at least 4 players in this class can breakthrough this year.

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These are ceilings. I think guys could slide down, but not really up.

Potential starters that could get you 5 innings reliably with a random 7 or 8 thrown in there:

Anderson
Mayers
Eyanson
Cowan (DE)
Herring (DE)
Hayden (DE)

Long relief/piggy back guys that can go 3-5 and spot start:

Sheerin
Ware (coming off injury, DE)
Rizy (DE)
Shores (coming off injury)

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Has Shores had a setback? He should be good to start next year. His injury timeline is almost exactly a year behind Jump's.

Jump was injured himself in late April 2022 and was starting for LSU 22 months later.

Shores injured himself on 3/31/2023. He was throwing live bullpens last month.

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from June 11Johnson also provided an update on injured pitcher Chase Shores. Shores started four games for LSU during his freshman season and made three SEC appearances before being sidelined by an elbow injury on March 31 and redshirting. He underwent Tommy John surgery afterwards and didn’t make an appearance during the 2024 season.

“To win 43 games and lose a talent like that and not have him available, again major hat tip to our team,” Johnson said. “He’s rolling pretty good. Was throwing a live bullpen the other day.”

Johnson said Shores fastball was up to 97.7 miles per hour and his sliders have improved. Getting Shores back would be a major boost to LSU’s pitching rotation. The 6-foot-8 right hander posted a 1.96 ERA in 18.1 innings pitched in 2023.

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I think it was because someone said freshmen are not day 1 starters ever. It’s fine to assume Curiel will start in CF if Stanfield goes pro, nothing wrong with playing hypotheticals on a message board. You’re right though that we won’t know until the lineup card comes out on opening day.

Jake Brown was also a Day 1 guy as a freshmen.

obviously we were rotating guys pretty heavily early on but he was opening day starter

Just went look at the box scores for team USA collegiate team to see how Eyanson and Dickenson did there.

Eyanson:
2.1 IP
4K/2BB
1H
1ER

Dickenson:
4-24
1 double
5 runs scored
3 stolen bases (1 caught stealing)
5K/0BB
Played 4 games at 2B and 2 games at 3B

Milam played in 1 of the trial games and went 0-0 with 2 BBs and 1 run scored.

Fun fact: Anthony Eyanson is 3 months younger than Kade Anderson.

He's young enough that if he graduated a year later, he would not have been a draft eligible sophomore.

They have a pretty good soph catcher
Brayden Horton is his name
.280 11 HRs 39 RBI .976 fielding percentage