re: LSU Baseball - 2014 Post Season Thread

GOAT Lineup:

1. Stevenson CF
2. Laird LF
3. Bregman SS
4. Foster RF
5. McMullen DH
6. Ibarra 3B
7. Moore 1B
8. Scivicque C
9. Hale 2B

I like

Opening Day lineup:

1. McMullen CF
2. Laird LF
3. Bregman SS
4. Foster RF
5. Moore 1B
6. Ibarra 3B
7. Scivicque DH
8. Chinea C
9. Hale 2B

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Stevenson will return for Saturday’s game at Zephyr Field against UNO. He’s only resting Friday. “We think he’s 100 percent,” Mainieri said. “I’m concerned on a cold night, standing out there at center field that a quick movement might aggravate it.”

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agreed

LINK

Blog from the Advocate about opening day with some quotes in there

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Cant be a GOAT lineup with no KRob

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Pre SEC GOAT?

NO!

yes it is. Stevenson brining a consistent reliable bat will be huge. one of the freshmen emerging with some big power will be the icing on the cake.

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Stevenson is out of the lineup for opening day, a 7 p.m. first pitch at Alex Box against New Orleans, with a strained quadriceps. McMullen will replace him in center and Scivicque takes McMullen’s spot at DH. Mainieri said Stevenson will return for Saturday’s game at Zephyr Field against UNO. He’s only resting Friday. “We think he’s 100 percent,” Mainieri said. “I’m concerned on a cold night, standing out there at center field that a quick movement might aggravate it.”

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As we reported earlier this week, each Moore, Scivicque and Chinea will get a crack at catcher this weekend and, maybe, first base. The three are competing for the two starting spots. Moore will catch Saturday and either Chinea or Scivicque will start at first. “I haven’t decided that yet,” Mainieri said. On Sunday, Scivicque will catch and Chinea or Moore will play first.

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One of the looming questions heading into this season: Who closes games? Two days before the opener, Mainieri hasn’t made a decision on that guy and says he’s still losing sleep over it. LSU lost school record-tying closer Chris Cotton.
He listed a group of players for a possible closer role. The top three appear to be Brady Domanque, Joe Broussard and Kurt McCune. On the next shelf are freshmen Parker Bugg and Alden Cartwright. “I think the thing to do is run the kids out there,” Mainieri said. “Initially, it might be McCune, might be Broussard, might be Domanque. I’m not sure yet because they’re all going to pitch. … I’m just going to let these kids pitch and once you see a guy out there four or five times and see his body language and you see his confidence and that he’s not afraid to pound that zone and you start to feel the confidence the whole team has in him, I have a sense that somebody may emerge and it may not be one of those three guys. It may be a sleeper. I like Alden Cartwright. I like Parker Bugg. There are other guys.”

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Junior college transfer Kyle Bouman will start LSU’s game Saturday against UNO at Zephyr Field. He’s somewhat the unexpected guy in LSU’s early rotation. He found out during practice last week and was fairly surprised. “I was just going about practice and he popped that on me,” he said of Mainieri. “I knew I was in contention. Didn’t know it’d be the Saturday spot, which is awesome. It’s a big honor.”
Bouman described his game: “Nothing too fancy, just throw strikes. I’m not going to blow people away, like Nola. Just throw a lot of strikes and mix my off-speed in there.”
Bouman, a Missourian, began his career at Wichita State two years ago before transferring to Jefferson County Community College in Missouri last year. He was a reliever at Wichita and a starter in junior college. He left Wichita because of what he called “a few off-the-field issues.”

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holy wall of text