re: Crews is burrowesque

Crews is outstanding, but I don't feel he has surpassed Todd Walker yet. He could with a great year (and he sure is on the way).
These are numbers Dylan needs to equal Todd's career offensive numbers (I will give Dylan the edge defensively, though Todd had MLB career Fielding % .981):
ABS - 227 (not likely), Hits - 108 (very unlikely), Runs - 69 (will pass at current pace), 2B - 28 (very unlikely), 3B - 9 (very unlikely), HR - 7 (basically a lock), RBI - 109 (very unlikely), TB 175 (unlikely), BB - 41 (likely at current pace), SO - Dylan already has 18 more.

Dylan's problem is that he is getting walked so much. Add in the 27 innings "stolen" from LSU hitters so far.

Todd had career BA .396, Dylan at .370, slugging % Todd .711, Dylan at .700, (NB: OBP Dylan .478, could not find Todd's career number; so also can't compare career OPS, but Dylan's is mind-boggling this year at 1.570)

Love 'em both and hope Dylan crushes it the rest of the year.

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there are 4 or 5 players right now on lsu's team that are EQUALLY contributing as much as Crews is thus far"

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No there is not. You really put a guy who was second team All SEC and had a total of 1 homerun his junior year and compared him to Crews. Wow lol

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Ummm im leaving a bunch of pitchers off the list who "impacted" their teams success in past years.

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You didn’t just move the goalpost… you moved it and made it 100x bigger. We were talking about the best players to come to LSU. When we list them, 3 automatically come to mind… Ben, Walker, Furniss. There’s a reason those 3 are above others… their output and success in comparison to their contemporaries. Crews is likely to finish on that level and everyone who knows the game agrees that he’s not just great, he’s special. Talking about “impact” is a fricking joke. No one’s threshold is that low.

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When he’s in the batters box, he seems in control, not the pitcher.

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Dylan's problem is that he is getting walked so much. Add in the 27 innings "stolen" from LSU hitters so far.

Todd had career BA .396, Dylan at .370, slugging % Todd .711, Dylan at .700, (NB: OBP Dylan .478, could not find Todd's career number; so also can't compare career OPS, but Dylan's is mind-boggling this year at 1.570)

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No. The problem is that Dylan plays in the dead bat/ball era vs pitchers who would never have sniffed college in 1991. The batting totals that were being put up in the 90s were stupid. -5 bats, the OG reflex (adding about 10pm ball speed), the best pitchers topping out at 91-93… Sanford had 4 guys hit 94.

What you have to try and do is compare him vs other players who are currently in college or have been since 2015. No one hits it harder more often and maybe never has in the college game. His ball speed when he makes contact is unreal. He’s a true 5 tool players who could probably play any position well if you asked him to. And he can do it vs guys throwing 95-98 consistently. He’s the best position player in the country and it’s not even close.

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He’s a true 5 tool players who could probably play any position well if you asked him to.

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There is still a decent chance he's the best catcher on the roster.

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My post started with “Crews is outstanding, but I don't feel he has surpassed Todd Walker yet. He could with a great year (and he sure is on the way)”.
I said this even though I noted he might not beat some of Todd’s statistics, because, I think you’ll agree, statistics do not tell the entire story, but they are important.
Perhaps I wasn’t clear. Crews is an outstanding player with great potential. My point is for me to judge him a greater Tiger player, I will wait until his career is over. That is why I wrote “yet”. And many factors go into the “Greatness equation”, including as you point out the level of pitching, baseballs, bats, and many more. But it’s not a cut and dried equation, so everyone will have their own factors and weighting of those factors. The point about the BB to me is I think it could be more significant than the better pitching now as far as Dylan achieving statistics comparable to Todd’s. If Dylan is walked over once a game (his current rate), then that will markedly affect his career totals of hits, RBI’s, 2B, HR, and, in my opinion, more so than the current pitching differential. However, there is no way to quantify exactly how each of those factors will effect Dylan’s final career stats. We will all make our own judgments. And to repeat, I feel Crews is well on the way to being the greatest LSU baseball player over, and if his current level of play continues the rest of the year, then I don’t think anyone would disagree, regardless of how any of us construct and compute the “Greatness equation”.