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

Gonna be one of those drafts. Better wear a lot of deodorant

Reading a little bit on him and they are saying the potential is through the roof with the power bat and strong arm. The rest of his game needs work though. Sounds similar to Jared Jones out of high school.

Project, what about Ethan Frey? He is oozing with potential

Wish he hadn’t got hurt

Still plenty time for him to climb the rankings, but Cade Arambide at 102 surprises me. I thought he would be much higher.

His profile is almost identical to Jones and Travinski coming out of HS. No guarantee he sticks at catcher or hits for any average.

you hearing any rumors about some big time guys entering the portal around the country?

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Incoming JUCO 1B/OF Trevor Schmidt will join Ryan Kucherak on the Lacrosse Loggers in the Northwoods League this summer.

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While not currently showing on their roster, it looks like Derrick Mitchell will be joining Kucherak and Trevor Schmidt in La Crosse.

We have a decent contingent of players going to the Northwoods League, which is great because they play a ton of games and the competition is good. And their games stream for free. I watched a lot of Frey and Moffett last summer.

Wonder if wants to come back to try and show more as a weekend starter.

Looking at a JUCO top 100 list from PBR. They have like 60 guys committed. About 30 of them are committed to SEC schools (incl Texas and OU).

Oklahoma alone has 8 JUCO top 100 guys committed. We have 4, Tennessee has 4. All three have more JUCO guys committed than just the guys on the top 100 list.

I think the JUCO ranks are stronger than in years past and will actually continue to be a good pipeline. With the hubbub over the portal the last couple years, there are a lot of players that were recruited over that ended up in JUCO and got a lot of opportunity. I think that's going to carry forward for a little while.

Last summer there were a lot of small school shortstops that transferred to larger schools. The smaller schools didn't respond by continuing to play freshmen. They're playing JUCO guys and older portal guys. The talent level in the portal will be very volatile year to year. I think it's why some schools are still focused on JUCOs, so they can get the experience but with a little more of the traditional recruiting rather than the speed dating of the portal.

Out overall numbers are still low for this time of year. We’re at 59/40 and we’re going to get hammered by the draft. I don’t think there will need to be a ton of attrition unless we go portal heavy. I think we will be more surgical though.