re: Pitching philosophy might need to change

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I’ve said this before. Yeskie takes great pitchers and makes them elite. But he can’t take meh pitchers and make them good,

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My thing with this is there shouldn't be any truly "meh" pitchers at LSU.

Every arm should have solid velo (or a very weird arm slot) and good breaking stuff. LSU is not in the business of recruiting guys with bad stuff. At some point, those guys have to make that stuff show.

Primeaux is a good example. Has great stuff from the left side. Has pitched under 2 of the best pitching coaches in the game and just never improved. Noot is another. Has great stuff, but just can't put it together.

Then you look at a guy like Anderson who had great stuff and went from a midweek piece to the best pitcher in the country in one season. Eyanson was a good west coast arm and became a future big leaguer. Holman/Jump are in the same mold. Shores couldn't put guys away for his first 2 and a half years here.

There hasn't been a pitcher that's left this program and shined at their next spot, outside of Sam Dutton, and even his numbers leveled off by the end of the year.