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

It also makes me so happy to see Vanderbilts classes so average now

Jay casually got 4 of the top 7 HS recruits out of Texas.

Update on Chase Shores from Jay:

Rehab going great, he is lifting every day and arms are getting big.

If we would have made the supers in 2024, he would have been on the roster.

Is Cooper Williams expected to contribute this upcoming season?

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is that good?

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We have to be done with the roster now, right?

We still have to replace the Ops Director role since Brent Haring left for Nicholls. That role wasn't filled until August of last year.

We also need a new S&C coordinator, but I believe that is supposed to be done by the end of this month.

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We have to be done with the roster now, right?

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With Jay I never put it past him to still find someone, in the end numbers work themselves out between injury redshirts, other redshirts, December portal and asking a JUCO guy or two to stay there another year.

We're at 44/40 right now which seems not bad at all, I feel like we were even more over the limit at this point post-draft last year unless I remember incorrectly.

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We're at 44/40 right now which seems not bad at all, I feel like we were even more over the limit at this point post-draft last year unless I remember incorrectly.

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We were. We were at 44 or 45 going into the spring.

ETA: I just don't think we have the same kind of redshirt candidates we did last year, barring injury.

That type of mileage makes a Prius jealous

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Kade Anderson it really looked like might settle into the Sunday role early on this past season when he was carving up early season OOC opponents and some mid-week opponents but he was pretty awful against SEC teams until the SECT he finally had a few good appearances then. You just never really know.

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Around that time frame he had hit some arm fatigue. I think that was an issue for him and a reason why he had that stretch of bad outings. Once he worked through the arm fatigue you saw he was back looking himself at the end of the season.

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This is my thought on it also. Any guys still needing some development already used a RS. The high school class is so strong that none of them are truly candidates to redshirt.

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Invariably some positions are so stacked though some incoming freshman or JUCO player will have to be convinced it's better to take the redshirt year then try again in 2026.

Seems like we have anywhere between 1-3 injury redshirts every year, even if you assume just 1 there, tell 1 JUCO guy to stay there for their sophomore year, you're already down to 42 now only needing 2 guys to either hit the December portal or take a voluntary redshirt which seems pretty easy. Potentially 1 pitcher and 1 position player maybe there.

Going to a 40 roster limit is great in terms of not having to turn as many guys away on the older 35 man roster but it also makes some positions way too overcrowded too where some guys just are never going to play in a particular season.

I know the tune is if you voluntarily redshirt here you're basically just portal fodder for the future and those players will rarely work themselves into the lineup or high leverage pitching here but at least that redshirt preserves a year of playing for them whether thats staying here or heading elsewhere....a year they dont come in for like 5 AB all season long or pitch 1.2 IP all year or something and burn a year.