re: Brice Turang drafted 21st overall

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Hughes is much farther along then Kramer was as a freshman.

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This is completely false.

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He batted .200

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See, the problem with stats nowadays, they're readily available on the World Wide Web.

Hal Hughes .221

We went through this.

Hal hit 221
Kramer hit 200

Hal had 8 extra base hits in 182 ABs
Kramer had 7 XBH in 100 ABs

Hal had a sub 300 OBP
Kramer’s was 330


But suuuuurrreeee... “so much better”

.200 or .221 still doesn’t get it done.

LSU has always had power at SS and 2nd. Without Smith we are fricked.

He was never coming

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Hughes is much farther along then Kramer was as a freshman.

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I've said it more than once, and get blasted everytime. Hal Hughes, as an out of state guy, should not get a scholarship to play at LSU. He hit .360 in high school. That isn't what i expect someone to do in shitty Oklahoma high school baseball if they are going to play at LSU.
Nola was a 4 time all state selection and hit .447
Kramer hit over .450 over 3 years in high school in Waco, and was also the starting qb and pg.
Stevenson hit .546 at st Thomas Moore.

Given how scholarships are scarce in baseball and we rely on tops, this shows evwn more how stupid it was to recruit Hal Hughes. And I mean all of that in the nicest way b/c he's a great kid. He just doesn't deserve or belong at LSU.

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Hal Hughes .221

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not good enough

Who knows how it plays out, but Hughes was a better fielder and hitter than Robertson in his freshman campaign.

Those stats show Kramer being the better player. He had damn near 100 less at bats. The point is that LSU had much better SS's in past years who were much better than Hughes. What other SEC teams does Hughes start for?

Kramer had 122 plate appearances. Hal had 209. If it was 130 to 30, people would have a point but those aren’t small sample sizes for either.