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re: Ok….LSU’s problem is hitting in the clutch. Isn’t hitting supposed to be JJ’s forte?
Posted on 4/13/24 at 7:48 pm to Lester Earl
Posted on 4/13/24 at 7:48 pm to Lester Earl
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Hitting in clutch isn’t really a thing You have good hitters, and you gave bad hitters. And some fall in between
Correct, but you have to find a way to move baserunners and manufacture runs or you won’t win many games. If you are having trouble scoring runs then you have to steal, sacrifice bunt, bunt, etc. You may have to change your plate approach for contact over power.
Posted on 4/13/24 at 7:50 pm to Sofaking2
Bunting doesn’t lead to more runs. Stop with this shite
Posted on 4/13/24 at 7:53 pm to Sofaking2
Lol yall witch like babies when he trys to bunt. We outhit them in both games. The main thing we've been pitching about with jay is hitting. They hit the ball and pitched pretty decent . Still wasn't enough
Posted on 4/13/24 at 7:55 pm to kc8876
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You’re in every baseball thread constantly saying the same thing about Jay Johnson, and have been for weeks. You have a few screws loose
I haven’t but sure thing.
Posted on 4/13/24 at 7:57 pm to grizzlylongcut
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This is the worst team in 20 years. Why should he get so much grace? The national championship was last year. This is this year. This team fricking sucks.
Give me a natty and then a down year over making it to regionals only to fall short every year.
Posted on 4/13/24 at 8:01 pm to GA Tiger
I think Jay is just as baffled as all of us. We started the season out looking like we would return to Omaha. Somehow it turned to dogshit after the 3rd inning of first game against State. We were destroying the ball in the first 3 innings, then in the 4th we go walk, walk, fly out, fielders choice, K. Stranded 2 and that’s pretty much been how every conference game has been. No timely hits. Not manufacturing runs. Just complete dogshit.
Posted on 4/13/24 at 9:31 pm to GA Tiger
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Johnson needs to make adjustments. Try small ball.
What adjustments are you suggesting? He started Milazzo behind the plate. Took Pearson out and put Milam and his superior defense back in. Called for 3 or 4 bunts, at least 2 hit-and-runs, and at least 1 straight steal. Is that not small ball? Are those not adjustments?
The fact is he has tried just about everything there is to try this year. He's thrown the fricking kitchen sink. It just hasn't stuck. We simply don't have the Jimmy's and the Joe's. Is that on him at the end of the day, of course. After the best roster in LSU history was completely decimated, he counted on some SOs and JRs really stepping up and taking big leaps and supplementing with some portal guys and freshman. And none have been as good as he hoped/expected. Some he probably counted on a year too early, others just probably aren't those dudes.
Those things are on him, and you're free to weigh your criticism of those however you want. But he didn't forget how to teach hitting. He didn't forget how to motivate. He didn't forget how to coach a team. Sometimes it just doesn't stick. Just like sometimes the stars align, and you win a national championship. Other times they align the wrong way and you get what we've been suffering through the 1st 5 weekends of SEC play. He wasn't the best coach in the history of college baseball last year, and he's not the worst one in history this year. But he's still young. He's still hungry. He's still learning (they play good ball out on the West coast, but the SEC is a different animal.). I would bet very heavily on him figuring it out, learning from his mistakes (I think his biggest one this year was roster management, not any in-season coaching or inability to develop--he just misjudged the dudes), and figuring out very quickly.
NOBODY wants to hear this, but this season will probably be good for him--and LSU--in the long run. Because I don't think he'll build a roster the same way again. There are some young guys throughout the conference doing really well individually. But you've got to be an older, seasoned, more veteran team to win at a high level in this league. And I think his teams moving forward will reflect that.
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