re: Early observations of LSU baseball

After reading his comments to BayTiger, I think he is referring to the poster that said Arrambide struck out a lot.

I don't recall him striking out a lot myself and I haven't seen Scuba's stats other than Thursday.

It's still not a comment to get in an uproar about. When posters start saying a player sucks, or is lazy things along those line, I will call them out myself. Most fans understand how hard these kids work and what a tremendous challenge it is. That poster was just trying to tell another poster to slow down on anointing Arrambide as a starter. They both have a right to their opinions.

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I’ll be shocked if he isn’t the starter at SS. He looks very fluid in the field.

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Dickinson needs to be in the lineup IMO. He seems to be as advertised and he is constantly moving the offense.

I know it's very early and the logjam in the outfield has carried over to this upcoming season, but I could see Curiel getting an opportunity to start for some unforeseen reason and sticking there if he continues to perform well.

Jake Brown's pitching performance showed him to not be fully there yet, but he battled back from behind in the count on Thursday nearly every batter and his misses were pretty close around the zone. I really love the pitch location graphic that shows the strike zone and wish we could incorporate it full time into the scoreboard for games.

1st: Dickinson
2nd: Stanfield
3rd: Jones

Interested how Jay configures this lineup, he’s got tons of time put that’s a lot of speed and contact at the top with Bear there to bring them in.

Also he loved Braswell and Milam at the top of the lineup where would they go? So many threats in this lineup

Thanks for the observations.

Thanks for the information. I’m glad Dickinson will push Braswell. I assume Dickinson can play 3rd?

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Dickinson has played 2B, 3B and SS in college but mostly 2B. Reaves is also best suited for 2B. I believe Dickinson wants an opportunity to play SS and Jay is going to give him one. Dickinson has more tools than Braswell but we will still have to see if the glove is good enough. The first weekend was pretty good. He made a couple of double plays with Reaves at 2B that were fairly athletic and I don't recall any errors.

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From the little bit of what I saw this fall so far, Dickinson appears to have better range in the field than Brazz does and his glove wasn't a liability. I think that Jay will give him every opportunity and most reps at shortstop to see if he can beat out the competition and stick there. I'll be curious to see how things shake out by the spring practice schedule when things get more finely tuned regarding player positions.