re: I never saw Todd Walker play at LSU

Yep, it’s not even a knock on Walker. People just throw around “5 tool player” without having any idea what that actually looks like.

Based on?

Joey Belle needs to enter this discussion. He was unreal

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Todd ran me down once in an intramural flag football game after about a 70 yd pass play.

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Nothing average about that guy on the field.

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40 career errors says otherwise

Saying someone isn’t a 5 tool player isn’t an insult. He’s the best mix of talent and production we’ve had and is therefore the goat.

Todd Walker was the most clutch hitter in LSU baseball history (except for that one HR by Warren Morris). If the game was on the line, you wanted TW at the plate and that's pretty rare.

It’s unheard of for a 2nd baseman

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ETA: Walker not having to face the quality of pitching Crews has is probably a bigger factor than the bats.

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on his own team there were probably 10 that made the Major Leagues. He saw them in practice all the time. Some of you act like nobody did anything before you were alive. Walker would destroy pitchers today like he did then.

I guess y’all think these guys are throwing harder than years past? Are you sure? How do you measure that and where? Did the guy from Tenn throw harder than Ryan? How about JV?

Here is a hint. Ryan threw 108+. After 27 years in the majors and 5000+Ks, averaging 160 innings per year, 7 no-no’s and ZERO STEROIDS Hos last pitch at 42 years old was 98 and a strike. Walter Johnson was measured in church clothes and no mound at 93….
There were many many more like Gibson, Feller, Richards, Hell even Gator sat at 95 for entire games. I mean just because y’all didn’t see it, it doesn’t mean it didn’t happen.

Walker was a career .280ish MLB player. He was EXCELLENT.

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Ryan threw 108+. After 27 years in the majors

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I don’t give a shite if Ryan throws 140 mph still today as Walker never faced him in college.

You are literally an insane person.

Joey Belle was the most talented LSU Baseball Player I've seen, but he was such a head case.

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I don’t give a shite if Ryan throws 140 mph still today as Walker never faced him in college. You are literally an insane person.

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Clearly you retard I was not saying Walker faced Ryan when in named Feller, Johnson, Gibson, etc. my point has to the idiot that made the comment that Crews and Bregman faced superior pitchers than Walker did in college. Y’all act like nobody was good in college back then so he wasn’t that good too.

Since y’all like stats - WALKER AVERAGED A 1200 OPS and wasn’t under 1130 any of the 3 years and a BA of nearly .400.
With his middle infield counter parts he turned 127 double plays. And to that a-hole that made the comment about the 40 errors, I CAN DAMN SURE SAY THAT TODAY’S SCOREKEEPERS DO NOT SCORE THE SAME AS THEN! Otherwise, Nordan Thompson would have about 30 for the season. He has 2 dropped pop ups and didn’t get an error on either.

Crews is not playing a position that gets the ball nearly as much or has the opportunity to make errors. You cannot be seriously trying to compare a second baseman to a fricking CF in defensive stats. LSU had far better CF than Crews. Hell, one of them is sitting on the bench. Hell, Laird would make Crews look slow. Jared Mitchell says “HI” also.


When Crews gets his name on the Box, come see me.