re: Jared Mitchell

Notice the ball he smoked at the 1B was against a RHP. He was LSU's best hitter the first month and a half of the season. He has cooled of late, mostly against the southpaws. I know it's only one swing, but for the guy wanting to know what's he done when it counts, he hit a HR vs. Baylor in a game that we won 3-2 in extra innings. Take his HR away and who knows if we even got out of the sub-regional.

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I wonder what his BA is the last 6 weeks?
When it actually counts............

Meat of sec play
sec tourn
regionals
super regionals???????????????

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going back to may 2nd, our friday game vs, arkansas, jared mitchell is batting .309

anymore retarded fricking comments from you?

Bench him. Pinch run him. I wouldn't let him him touch a bat the rest of the cws

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MLB scouts, who get paid thousands upon thousands of dollars

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Does Smoke really get paid that much?

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going back to may 2nd, our friday game vs, arkansas, jared mitchell is batting .309

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Absolutely beautiful. I was arguing earlier about this. People were saying he was only batting in the .320's cuz of weak competition and that he's been terrible in sec play.

It's amazing people want to bench a 1st round draft pick when he was a key component of what got us here. We've played 67 games (I think), and I believe every game he's played he's started...yet, even though we have the #1 team int he country, best record in the country, we should bench him once we get to the college world series.

Seriously, the ONLY people that actually want Jared Mitchell benched are people who have no clue waht baseball is. I'm disappointed with his performance inthe SR and tonight's game, but you don't bench a guy who can easily steal any base and gets on base nearly half the time he bats.

he's one of our best players and has the highest OBP on the team. He got screwed by the ump behind the plate tonight. He hit a rocket against the rightee and got walked tonight. 2 stikeouts,a linedrive, and a run scored. one of the strikeouts was bullshite. He is too patient at the plate (it can also be a strength for him--see all the walks)

I've got a feeling his not swinging has something more to do with the coach's instructions than him just decided to watch pitches. Otherwise, Sanchez would have told him something by now and he'd be up there free swinging Adam Dunn style.

The guy admittedly is not going to bat .350 but he's dangerous at the plate because he knows how to work a count. I find the only time he swings is when he has to, ie., 1-2 count or 0-2. I guess if you play the percentages, 4/10 times you're going to walk if you just sit up there in his case. The rest is a mix of strikeouts and hits.

I'm not a big fan of Jared at the plate but I have a feeling that's more of a coach's decision than him just not being aggressive.

Jmitch does strikeout alot and seems very tentative at the plate. However those people saying he should be benched are just stupid. He's still got one of the better averages on the team so we know he can hit. He gets a ton of walks to go with his strikeouts and he gets into pitchers heads when he's on the bases.

I gurantee before the cws is over he makes a game-changing play be it in the outfield, the batter's box, or the base path.

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I've got a feeling his not swinging has something more to do with the coach's instructions

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i doubt that seriously, PM complains about hitters who dont swing, he likes agressive hitters, ive heard him talk about it on more than 1 occasion

Mitchell's selection in the first round was predicated on his athleticism and potential to improve. While I'm not calling for his removal from the lineup, that would be silly, he is absolutely the last guy I would want to see at the plate in a critical situation. Honestly, I would prefer to see Nola than Mitchell come to bat if the game were on the line.