re: Purple and Gold World Series - Gm 1 Lineups

If Braden Doughty is a guy that ends up needing to be moved off the roster due to limits, I hope this weekend is the first step toward him being brought on as an undergrad assistant or GA. I think he’s good to have around the program.

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If Braden Doughty is a guy that ends up needing to be moved off the roster due to limits, I hope this weekend is the first step toward him being brought on as an undergrad assistant or GA. I think he’s good to have around the program.

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I agree with you. I had a similar thought on here at the beginning of fall.

Some interesting decisions and conversations coming soon for the staff and players.

I’m pretty sure I read somewhere he has had some arm issues in the past. I think Tommy John surgery a few years ago(could be wrong). It’s probably a durability, pitch count thing as much as anything with that kind of velocity…

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Not that it matters, but LSUsports.net shows the final score as 11-7 Purple. Did they have some kind of modified scoring system in place?

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Yes. They’ve used a modified one all season; but I think the one they’re using for this weekend may even be a little more different.

LSU Baseball Twitter account tried to explain it. Something about getting a point for “winning situations”, plus the runs actually scored, and then an extra point for “winning” the inning. Or something along those lines.

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I’m pretty sure I read somewhere he has had some arm issues in the past. I think Tommy John surgery a few years ago(could be wrong). It’s probably a durability, pitch count thing as much as anything with that kind of velocity…

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Yes, he had TJ surgery in spring of 2020, his freshman season. Tried to come back a little too soon this past season; which only caused command issues. He didn’t have a re-aggravation of the injury or anything.

But after working with a specialist in June before reporting to Cape Cod, he regained command and made a big jump in velocity.

I think we were all high on him being a starter and thought he would for several reasons. One, because of the velocity. Two, because he reportedly had a 3-4 pitch mix. And three, most importantly, he was used primarily as a starter in the Cape and went 4-5 innings in every game he started. So it’s not like he hadn’t already been working this summer as a starter and seemed to handle the work fine.

But again, we really won’t know till spring for sure what the plan is. It could just be they were taking it easy on him this fall since he did pitch this summer and didn’t see a need to stretch him out. But the feeling right now is they might just be planning to use him in the pen.