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re: Which pitchers in the portal are we pursuing?
Posted on 6/15/26 at 11:33 am to Lester Earl
Posted on 6/15/26 at 11:33 am to Lester Earl
quote:Yeah Cowan could run it up to 96, sat 92-93, had run on the FB, and had an elite change up that fooled the best players he faced. He was not an 86 mph junk ball pitcher.
And I’m still not sure yall understand why Cowan was good. On top of being a multi-pitch pitcher, he has like a 70 grade changup. These guys don’t exactly grow on trees.
At the same time, because he wasn't throwing 98 - when he made mistakes, they were absolutely hammered.
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Posted on 6/15/26 at 12:36 pm to 304tiger
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Plog and Lach can hopefully improve, but we'll definitely need some good arms on the back end.
I thought Lachenmyer looked a lot better back half of the season. He’s got some potential. I don’t understand the portal ranking as one of the best arms in the portal last year but there’s some nice things to work with there.
Posted on 6/15/26 at 1:19 pm to ArkTiger55
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The defense wasn’t awesome but it wasn’t bad enough to put the majority of the blame on.
If the defense was up to LSU standards, we were in the postseason. It cost us so many games.
Yes, we had other issues, but if we're just "pretty good" there, we're in a regional.
Posted on 6/15/26 at 1:24 pm to CatfishJohn
Defense & catching were huge parts of it. No way around it
Posted on 6/15/26 at 3:09 pm to Underteaux
They're down seven pitchers and potentially nine, depending on what Guidry and Sherin do. You can't count heavily on freshmen. They clearly need portal arms.
Posted on 6/15/26 at 3:11 pm to Lester Earl
The catching will look better when the pitchers stop throwing WPs.
Posted on 6/15/26 at 3:18 pm to BiggaGeauxrilla
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I don’t understand the portal ranking as one of the best arms in the portal last year
I take pretty much all portal rankings with a grain of salt. I feel like draft rankings repurposed for portal rankings give a better indication of talent and ability to translate to the SEC. And Baseball America essentially does that. They use their draft rankings and research as the basis for any portal rankings they do.
I don't remember where Lachenmayer was on their rankings but I was a fan of the pick up regardless. And I agree there is something to build on with him.
I really hope change up our usage patterns next season. Let guys extend more instead of using guys more often. There are definitely some guys who get better with more usage, but it takes a certain type of pitcher (there are physical traits) and most of the time it's a war of attrition to find them. You end up burning up a lot of guys before finding the small percentage that can handle a heavy reliever appearance workload.
Throwing 2.2 innings in one appearance in a week is easier on the arm than two 1-inning appearances in a week.
I think Lachenmayer is a guy that can be asked to go one time through the order once a week and contribute more than if he's asked to go in and get a string of lefties on Tuesday, Friday, and Sunday.
Posted on 6/15/26 at 5:02 pm to Tigerpride18
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we will have a much better staff next year imo
If so, they will need to fine the strike zone more than they did just year. Walks kill you. And I remember just about everyone here was complaining about the staff walking batters.
Posted on 6/15/26 at 8:17 pm to PP7 for heisman
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When healthy, the starting pitching was not awful.
The offense struggled
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The defense directly cost you multiple games
True & True & True. There were multiple breakdowns at all levels. No one area to blame, it was a Team effort, but not a good one!
Posted on 6/15/26 at 9:49 pm to Bayou Bengal 730
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If so, they will need to fine the strike zone more than they did just year
That’s some wisdom right there! Wow!
Posted on 6/15/26 at 10:47 pm to ccarrone0313
During the 25 season the pitching improved during the year and reached their peak in OMAHA ..Now this season injuries and inconsistency was what we had Unfortunatly.YESKIE was the coach both years but idiots on this board don’t give him credit for the championship season.The man’s a very good coach and JJ knows it,that’s good enough for me.Some fans just can’t be happy without someone being fired.
Posted on 6/16/26 at 8:04 am to Portcityblues
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need to adjust pitch selection and strategy to go after hitters more and fill up the zone and make hitters earn it and let the defense do the work. Consistently get ahead in the count and then you can see if guys will chase junk. This year it seemed that way too often they were calling pitches to avoid hits and try to get strikeouts. Asking young guys to be perfect in non-advantageous counts too often and it ended up in way too many walks and passed balls due to poor location on these pitches. simplify the approach. the stuff is there. you may give up a little more earned here and there but if you wipe out a large chunk of free passes you will be much better off in long run.
Fair to say. But every year is different. We slipped in all phases of the game, and each phase,seemed affected by the others. This year the same strategy of going for strikeouts may play just fine. Different defense, starting pitchers are all a year older and both our catchers are more experienced. Not sure either of our catchers will ever be confused with a Millazo defensively, though.
Posted on 6/16/26 at 8:10 am to Lester Earl
Don't be dissing Greg Maddox. Not sure you were, but you are speaking about my favorite pitcher of all time.
Posted on 6/16/26 at 3:30 pm to Bayou Bengal 730
usually youre never as bad as you think or as good as you think,but we were as bad as it seemed with walking batters. maybe they have a philosophy change that involves pitching to contact more . you dont lead the league in strikeouts and walks without it being part of youre philosophy to try to always avoid contact more than most teams do..every team is trying to avoid contact but it seems we try harder than most to get swing and misses. when youre trying to live on the corners constantly youre going to walk batters
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