So, obviously its well documented how horrible we are with giving up free bases. I wanted to go through pitcher by pitcher and see how it compared to their previous season pitched to see which improved vs which ones stayed about the same, vs those who regressed. I want to preface that I wouldn't expect every pitcher or even most pitchers to necessarily imrpove year to year in BB per IP, but you need some improvement from at least half your staff in this regard, and especially from more of your top end arms. I ignored freshmen as I dont find it helpful to compare to high school stats. Below are my findings strictly comparing BB per IP vs their previous season of pitching:

Improved:
William Schmidt 29% decrease
Gavin Guidry (2 years ago) 37% decrease
Connor Benge 47% decrease

About the same:
Cooper Moore 2% increase (pre-injury vs 2025 at Kansas)

Regressed:
Casan Evans 42% Increase
Devin Sheerin 12% Increase
Zac Cowan 37% Increase
Dax Dathe 53% Increase (small school jump up could partially explain)
Grant Fontenot 276% Increase
Santiago Garcia 21% Inrease
Danny Lachenmeyer 69% Increase (small school jump up may explain some)
Mavrick Rizy 15% Increase
Cooper Williams 36% Increase
Jaden Noot 67% Increase
DJ Primeaux 333% Increase

Bottom line, there is a major trend towards the negative here, and the approach, mentality, pitch selection, and scouting needs to be re-thought by this staff.

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Posted by trussthetruzz

Member since Sep 2020

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Posted on 5/15/26 at 10:38 am to josh336

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the approach, mentality, pitch selection, and scouting needs to be re-thought by this staff.

Or just dump Yeskie

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Posted by LSUminati

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Posted on 5/15/26 at 10:39 am to josh336

Yeskie staffs have had a walks issue since at least A&M. He does also have a lot of postseason development skins on the wall to be fair. But Jay needs to take a real deep dive on him.

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Posted by ProjectP2294

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Posted on 5/15/26 at 10:40 am to josh336

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Grant Fontenot 276% Increase

This one surprised me because there are ways he's absolutely better than he had been.

I don't think he was done any favors by being asked to pitch in 4 of 6 games over the course of 8 or 9 days at one point this season.

One of the things we did was as soon as any pitcher showed any sort of progression, we leaned so hard on them that they wilted and regressed. I disagreed with a lot of the "who to pitch when" decisions this year. Mostly around guys throwing more than once a week or especially more than once a weekend.

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Posted by thunderbird1100

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Posted on 5/15/26 at 10:40 am to josh336

It would also be helpful to include HBP and maybe even WP (not totally controlled by the pitcher, but useful in showing how much this season has really gone off the rails)

HBP though we already have 9 more than last season in 14 less games at the moment. We have 18 more WP than last season again in 14 less games

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Posted by josh336

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Posted on 5/15/26 at 10:42 am to ProjectP2294

The desperation i think led to some of those decisions., but there were definitely plenty of head scratchers.

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Posted by josh336

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Posted on 5/15/26 at 10:43 am to thunderbird1100

I didnt want to get into all that, especially wild pitches because of how they are scored and who rightfully or wrongly gets the blame for them. Hbp as well for the sort of luck factor involved. Although there is definitely something to it

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Posted by LSBoosie

Member since Jun 2020

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Posted on 5/15/26 at 10:51 am to josh336

Those damn umpires

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