re: John Pearson is going to be really hard to Keep Out of the Lineup

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sure, but a hitting a center cut 87mph fastball doesn't tell us much.

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That was my point. Anyone including Pearson who is hitting it well in conference will have a spot. And the idea that they won’t because we will just have too many other bats is just unrealistic.

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On a team that does not project to have a lot of power

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I think this team is quickly proving the exact opposite actually. LSU has a ton of power up and down the lineup. Just about everyone in the lineup except for Stanfield is capable of hitting double digit HRs. Curiel is off to a slow start but I know he will get it together pretty quick.

Should we wait 3 weeks to talk about LSU baseball?

Very interesting how the lineup will shake out against left handed pitchers.
If Dardar continues as is he’s not coming out of the lineup. That leaves just DH and maybe a rotation in left field.

You can talk about it all you want but until SEC play starts we dont know who will be the DH or who the closer will be or who our best hitter will be. Non conference games against bad teams don't do anything for me. Maybe this weekend will tell us more.

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sure, but a hitting a center cut 87mph fastball doesn't tell us much. Pearson will have to out hit and play better defense than whomever he is theoretically replacing. Im not sure he has a lane at 1B or DH at the moment except maybe when a LHP is slated to start occasionally

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I wholeheartedly agree. Pearson has shown flashes but IMO, I don't think it's enough to create a thread. If he's successful against better competition, we should re-visit this conversation, but until then R-E-L-A-X and enjoy the rental win.

The issue is that we have 12 or so deserving position players.

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The issue is that we have 12 or so deserving position players.

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It's the "problem" every year now under Jay

The dude recruits at the absolute top, and we will always have guys who wont get much action in a year because there's simply not enough AB to go around.

Ryan Costello went off to Maryland and I bet he does really well there; he's the starting 1B/DH...he could have stayed here to compete for 1B since we were losing Jared Jones, but Jay just brings in Zach Yorke and we're like, alrighty then; RELOAD

Ashton Larson to Texas, probably do well there as well, starting LF for them....he couldnt play a position here struggling in the OF compared to what we had, so he transferred somewhere to give him time in the OF...we returned our whole OF

Mic Paul went to Washington and is a starting OF for them; if Stanfield doesnt come back he could be starting OF here; again whole outfield returned for us and no spots up for grabs really

Mikey Ryan went to NC State and is starting SS for them; with us returning Milam there was no path to playing time at SS unless he wanted to compete with some top transfers at 2B, he chose to go somewhere who could give him starting SS

We are DEEP with position players and that is no different this year. Plenty of guys who can hit and play a position ultimately. We will see a handful more transfer out after this season and probably start and play well for a name team elsewhere once again. This isnt a situation where its a guy who just needs to drop down to like ULM to maybe see AB. We've got legit power conference starters riding the pine for us every year.

Look at a guy like Trent Caraway coming in here. He was getting near superstar levels towards the end at a power baseball school in Oregon St where he hit FIVE home runs in 5 games in their regional and he's placed in the bottom third of the order here

Brayden Simpson hits damn near close to .400 last year with 22 dingers and has come in here and might not be an every day player ultimately.