re: A lot to look forward to (Baseball)

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Looking through pitching stats last night, it’s pretty insane how bad this staff is at throwing strikes… so many dudes with Friday night talent that have little league control. Couldn’t believe how many guys averaged more than one free pass per inning. If we can have some of these guys improve to at least average control, the staff could be elite.

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We also lead the NCAA in Ks, so it’s not just about throwing strikes, at least not for our top guys. It’s about consistency.

We all understand the issues with the staff overall, but this was a reply about the starters. The Ks are primarily coming from them (Moore when he was healthy), Cowan, Guidry, Sheerin and Fontenot. Moore had 39 Ks to just 7 BBs before he went down, so he isn’t an issue with better run support and defense. Sheerin is 45 to 15. Evans and Schmidt can certainly improve, but they still have 76 and 72 Ks respectively.

The middle to bottom of the staff has been the biggest issue. None of them have been dependable. Paz has made a move to separate himself and last night seemed to emphasize that. Cowan has been very good, but he obviously won’t be back next year.

The rest is a grab bag. Guidry, Williams, and Rizy have all regressed. Garcia didn’t live up to his billing. Lach has been ok, but also not as good as we hoped. You see several pitchers lower down the list with almost the same number of Ks and BBs and that’s a huge issue. None of them have been consistent or reliable. We also haven’t had enough guys in the pen make moves late in the season like the last 3 years.

We also have different issues now than earlier in the season. We weren’t producing enough runs in most games, so that put a ton of pressure on the staff and with starters who haven’t tended to go deep in games, it meant we always needed help from the pen.

Now we are getting more run support than earlier in the season, but we aren’t able to hold leads. Down two starting pitchers, we are having to pitch guys who can’t handle it and we keep making defensive mistakes that just make it harder on them. But just look at last weekend. The starters did enough to win those games. It was the late-inning collapses thanks to defense and the pen that killed us.

Braun, Ruckert, Patrick, Serna,& Arrambide all hopefully don't go anywhere.
Either go get an elite SS or 2B out the portal and have Ruckert work around whomever that is. Serna and Bide are likely two of the best offensive catchers in the college and could improve this off season on their defense play. Braun solidifies 1B. Patrick gets a spot in the OF. Pierson could compete at 3B as they'll likely bring someone in to compete for that spot. Need some portal OF's.
Schmidt, Moore, Paz, Evans, would likely battle for starter with whomever else CJJ brings in to compete.

I hope his dad isn’t scouting future teams for a nil deal

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May entertain moving Evans back to the pen

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I completely agree. Getting a healthy Moore back and the development of Paz. I also think Jay gets 2 excellent pitchers from the portal and a chance that Milam comes back; it's a strong possibility.

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And yet $ talks dumbass

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Again, what is your fricking problem?

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And yet $ talks dumbass

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You calling someone else a dumbass? That's rich

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Ok. Now look at the entire season because that’s what I was looking at. This is a thread about the future of LSU baseball, not the May 2nd double header.

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Undoubtedly, I read your statement of "Looking through pitching stats last night" as meaning yesterday, I can see now that is not what you meant.

On the year, they were at 61.45% strikes thrown rate. Still in the average good range. But I think the timing of the pitching breakdowns has been what has cost us, just like the lack of timely hitting has been an issue in many of the losses.

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Kind of don't care that we’re losing Milan, Curiel, Brown or any other upperclassman that IMO failed to provide the kind of leadership the team needed

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This is such a stupid take.

I'm down with this.