Coach Eddie Smith's 2020 Goals Update - Through 3 Weekends

It's still very early in the season. Perhaps baby steps should be the goal vs. an overnight fix.

Step 1: Avoid looking like this at the plate

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Super useful early in the season.

We may as well pack it in with Tennessee scoring 10 runs a game.

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Early in the season is not a valid excuse to be the opposite of everything you say your goals are. And there has been some weak competition that has utterly stifled this lineup.

It would be hard for LSU to continue to be this bad at the plate. But there isn't anything happening to inspire confidence that the offense can be competitive against top pitching. And that makes winning in the postseason a problem, if they can get there.

1. It’s a long way to go and the state pool is limited.

Tennessee scored 42 points in 2 games. That’s not normal and when you e only played 11 games that greatly effects your numbers.

Vice Versa if you have 2 really bad games, you’re getting dragged down too.

We have been really inconsistent, we could become consistently bad or consistently good.

Tulane lineup last year > than LSU lineup this year

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Tulane lineup last year > than LSU lineup this year

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So, what you're telling me is that good hitters make for good stats?

What a novel thought. Thank you for making my point. SABER metrics people always try to take credit for everything, and say "it all happened when we got him to change his launch angle and stop swinging at balls".

If it's that easy, what's the problem? Why should guys like Eddie Smith take all the credit, and then get none of the blame, when it doesn't work?

I argued over the course of an entire baseball season with a Braves fansite columnist, who loves sabermetrics, and tried to tell me that guys who made drastic, and sudden turnarounds, like Justin Turner, were the result of analytics. He gives no credence to Turner's hard work, and I vigorously argued this blind idea.

But when guys struggle, we're supposed to give it time? Where is the consistency in these arguments?

Eddie needs to be updating his resume. We all know Paul won't do shite for him once they're all fired after this year.

And a reasonable argument can be made that LSU has not only faced tougher pitching so far, but also better hitting. We won’t know how teams compare until they start playing one another.

Yeah I agree and was aware of the tournament they played in with good competition. Just trying to make the point that we will see how we compare to SEC teams once we start facing them.

Oh yeah. Our pitching will keep us in pretty much every game. Even with the step up in competition, SEC teams still have flaws. Our flaws just seem magnified right now.

The guy that threw the no hitter against us could pitch for anyone in the SEC. I'm not saying that because he threw a no hitter against us. He's been a big time prospect for a while. He was highly thought of going into Rice his freshman year, transferred to San Jac (was drafted from there), and then went to Oklahoma instead of signing. He's really good. That's the type of guy we will be facing in the SEC.

Not the clown from Nicholls or the rag arm from Eastern Kentucky.

But we won't face all of them on their best day.