re: Plenty of crow to be eaten when Johnson gets this LSU team to Omaha

I don’t get what they saw in Floyd so far this year that made them think he was ready to start against an SEC lineup. Until he can develop more he needs to pitch mid week or in mop up situations. Johnson is going to have to really manage this pitching staff close if we’re going to have a chance at winning some SEC series this year.

Might be which is concerning.

Crow always tastes best when the correct seasoning is used. We are waiting for the final taste after Omaha.

This club will not make the field come tournament time. I like Johnson but he doesn’t have the pitching or defensive talent to be a player in this conference currently. 2-3 seasons at a minimum.

I don’t think Johnson is the problem at the moment. The problems are issues that have been carried over from CPM era. There’s been a lack of a true 3rd baseman on the roster since Ibarra. I can’t remember the last time there were two dominant arms on the pitching staff at the same time. Maybe Coleman and Ronaudo?

Point is, the roster hasn’t been well managed in a long time. Johnson is having to fight that. That’s why you saw them hit the portal so hard looking for arms.

I’d like to see Taylor. He had a breaking ball for an out pitch and has velocity. Seems they have been careful to not extend him to this point.

Dude are you for real. Watch the game

Arms are weak. You have to throw strikes.

But then you have to make the outs.

We’re doomed.

I'm not ready to throw in the towel on Jay Johnson. I agree with Ben McDonald when he said this LSU team has the talent to win however, it comes down to a couple things:


1. Relief pitching


2. Fixing these costly errors. Our fielding is poor. I never thought I'd be saying that.

And these are good players, they aren't just coming in as true freshman with little to no experience. These are routine plays. These shouldn't be happening. They certainly shouldn't be happening as frequently as they have been. These errors have already cost us at least 4 games. It needs to be fixed now.

There's certainly time to get it fixed (better to see this early in the season rather than in May) but when it keeps happening, it starts to become concerning.