re: LSU Baseball 2026 (and beyond) Recruiting Thread

Are any local guys here familiar with Dylan Champagne from Dutchtown? He is a freshman at Jones College, a strong JUCO in Mississippi. He's played 3rd base, catcher, and most recently shortstop at a listed 6'4" 215. 4 homers but 18 doubles. Slashing .389/.495/.569.

Looks like he was getting smaller school looks a QB and may have missed his SR year of baseball due to injury.

Just wondering if he's someone that could be getting looks from us down the road.

This is the type of player Jay needs to be recruiting to play at LSU. Project, have you heard of Aidan Mouton? I know he is currently signed and committed to Kansas but this is a kid who can field, hit, and run the bases. He would be a great addition to the infield for next year.

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Baseball America just updated and expanded their draft rankings. Here are the LSU associated guys and their old rank and new rank:

Name POS 5 (300) 6 (400)
Derek Curiel OF 20 12
Logan Schmidt LHP 27 27
Jensen Hirschkorn RHP 26 29
Jake Brown OF 44 70
Dominic Santarelli OF/1B 65 100
Cooper Sides RHP 86 106
Malachi Washington OF 93 116
Lucas Nawrocki LHP/OF 121 137
Anthony Murphy OF 138 149
Nathaneal Davis OF 143 156
Will Adams OF/1B 150 163
Wessley Roberson OF 189 205
Kolby Stringer RHP NR 209
CJ Weinstein SS 234 213
Steven Milam INF 144 218
Coleton Brady RHP 201 223
Deven Sheerin RHP NR 275
Dylan Blomker RHP 252 276
Cooper Moore RHP 258 280
Spencer Evans LHP NR 332

Hopefully we can convince a lot of these recruits to come to campus

Really good recruiting class

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Dropped. The farthest right column is the current ranking, that goes to 400. The column to the left of that is the old ranking that went to 300. This is the 6th ranking they've done for this class, so I have some ranking history on guys that started off in the top 100.

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Whats the cut off for guys to have a better than 50% to stay here as far as current players or come here as far as incoming freshman.

Like how far does Milam have to drop to consider coming back
or what pick does a top recruit have to drop to to consider taking his nil and coming here?

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or what pick does a top recruit have to drop to to consider taking his nil and coming here?

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We had Omar Serna completely pull his name from the draft last year and he was rated 78th before doing so.

Landon Hodge signed for $1.1MM which was the value for the 66th pick (he was picked 106). We also lost River Hamilton for $500K.

So it really just depends on the player. As we got closer to the draft last year there was a lot of buzz of Hodge being signable for as little as $400k, once those rumors hit we made a concerted effort to lock down Serna. Hamilton always seemed to have his eyes on pro ball, signing for $500K just kind of cements that.

Hamilton had TJ not long after the draft. Hodge has not played in an official minor league game yet.

I specifically mentioned those guys because they were more fringey guys at various points in their recruitment. Guys like Ebel, Young, Fauske, etc were never fringe and were always longshots.

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Dropped.

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That's a big drop. What happened? He's the same size as the last ranking.

Who are some of the fringe guys who could make it to campus?

I think players dropping helps a lot. I'm sure they daydream about spending that money. When the money they already spent in their heads starts decreasing they can get a chip on the shoulder. When a player is moving up it can have the opposite effect.

Plog is not draft eligible. I've never found a birthday for Lachenmayer either.

On a different note: Mason Braun is scheduled to play for Cotuit in the Cape Cod League this summer. That gives us assignments for 4 of the freshmen so far.

Braun and Serna - Cape Cod
Patrick and Ruckert - Pacific Empire League

I think Clauss and Harden are scheduled for the La Crosse Loggers in the Northwoods league, but I haven't been able to confirm yet.