re: LSU Softball 2018

Clark, Tidwell, Cummins and Perkins can all smash balls out the park in a hurry. Pretty powerful class. A lot of potential

After pitching every year and most of the time in my younger years, i did not want to pitch my senior year.. I played outfield and enjoyed it. We had a few guys who could pitch, and play as well, but all they did was pitch. if they werent pitching, they were sitting the bench waiting their turn.

Carly is pretty good at the plate, and she could only get better if they put an emphasis on it. Maribeth hits well, and Allie is a good pinch hitter (rather than DP).

Ritter knocked the ball out of the park on a walk off home run in the third game of their championship i think it was 2003, or somewhere around there.

Ricketts beat Tennessee in game one years ago sending the ball over the fence in walk off fashion.

Lot of great hitters that were great pitchers as well.

I know a lot of people are wondering if all those girls that we never see play, the ones sitting the bench, if they could be called on to hit.

One thing that many "fans" are not fair about is their criticism of pinch hitters. Some complained about Nicky's at bat, which she swung at two bad pitches in striking out...

Let's be fair. If you want to criticize, instead of judging someone by her only at bat in the game, give that same person three or four at bats in the game, and see how many times she gets on. MOST hitters dont hit the first at bat.

To call in a pitcher and let her pinch hit, just one chance per game, its hard to be successful.

Me, personally, I'd never be satisfied with just pitching, especially if i could hit like some of these pitchers can. I gave up pitching and i felt like more a part of the game, and enjoyed it more, playing in the field and batting four times a game.

I wouldn't consider Serrett a horrible infielder but she did have a really bad last month, she had like 10 errors the last month but she's a good player tho. She had a .978 average towards the end of SEC play.

I agree 3B defensively needs to be better and the entire team needs to be better offensively. Zero reason for Amanda Doyle to hit below .240

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Amanda Doyle to hit below .240

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Really Doyle and Springfield are the least of my worries. I think we will be pretty solid in the outfield as well. Serrett has shown flashes of pure brilliance and is just very inconsistent. But statistically speaking, Serrett was not good this season. I would never compare Serrett to Quinn but that was Quinn's problem for 3 years. Good a few games and then just tank for a week or two. Good when good and beyond awful other times.

It's difficult to have faith in line ups after what we have seen the last 3 or 4 years when it comes to player selection. I just don't see us being any better in a few spots regardless of options.

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Carly is pretty good at the plate,

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never seen it

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Maribeth hits well

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never seen it

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Lot of great hitters that were great pitchers as well.

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ricketss, Haeger, Show with TAMu can hit, and on and on...even that girl whose name escaped me, all i remember was we played her bombers team and she could pitch and hit and she was committed to gasso. The vestal kid. She could be another big time pitcher/hitter combo.

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instead of judging someone by her only at bat in the game,

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yeah whoever made that comment based on one at bat, well, i would have to question their age and experience and knowledge about the sport.

A lot of all-state high school players move on to the college level and bomb out at the plate at first. Kvistad was not that great her freshman year. Look at her now. Lorenz on the other hand was good to go from day one.

Yesterday i was watching Oregon and Oklahoma play and just thinking hos far more mature their batters are than ours. Far smarter too.

You can go on youtube and watch the 2015 game when Lsu beat Oklahoma in regular season. At the time Lsu wAs 28-1 and ranked #1. Man whAt a team fhey had that year. Bailey was hitting .496. I thoght they"d win it all that year. Carly pitched and was a freshman. Amazing.

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Lineup was

Andrews
Landry
Bell
Jaquish
Kloss
Supak
Simmons
Quinn
Skinny Griggs

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Plus a healthy Hoover and Waljasper. Filthy!

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Tb357, you mentioned, for instance, that Amanda Doyle was recruited by virtually every PAC 12 school. Now LSU is not a bad academic school, but it must be a challenge recruiting against say, Stanford, Cal, and UCLA with what they can offer academically to these young women

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It is, it's like this especially in gymnastics recruiting. UCLA seems to be first choice for a lot of gymnasts. Beth does a amazing job recruiting Cali

Caccamise is coming in this fall, in 2019, we add Ciara Briggs and Raleen Gutierrez

kid from OU possibly transferring in?

How many transferring out?