Roster limits and a changing sport forced LSU away from the Eddy Furniss-like slugger

Just one look at what Arkansas and Florida are doing within our own conference proves that you can still build a team around power hitters at the plate.

With that being said, I don't mind that we like to build our roster around smaller athletes who can play multiple positions, but it would be nice to have a few sluggers in the lineup.

This was already posted.

Being a power team isn't all that helpful when you get to Omaha and suddenly face foul poles 20 feet further back than your own park and power alleys 10-20 feet further back as well, all while the wind loves to blow in.

Don't think we need a lot more power, like an Arkansas team is built. Elite pitching is what really wins and manufacturing runs these days in Omaha.

Yeah it's fun to look at Arkansas' lineup where it seems like everyone has at least 5 home runs on the year, but what happens when that gets taken away if they make it to Omaha?

Generally speaking to have more power, you sacrifice some athleticism which means you sacrifice fielding. Arkansas fields at .972, which is tied for 2nd worst in the conference. That doesnt account for range of the players, either. Things our guys can track down in the outfield and make catches on, vs. their guys in the outfield cant get to, and those go down as hits.

Kentucky always seems to lead or come close to leading the league in home runs, because they have a baby sized right field pole and load their lineup with left handed power hitters. Again, when did that ever help them win anything important?

Florida is the enigma this year, they have power, they have fielding, they have elite pitching...unfortunate, they might go back to back. That's an extremely rare combination. To me, O'Sullivan has simply passed up Mainieri in building the best roster these days. Call it luck, but he consistently has great pitching and now the hitting is FINALLY coming around. Jonathan India's season is just ridiculous at this point.

But Coastal won on the back of veteran grinders and pitching. They could hit for power but they were a pressure team, at least in that post season run.

ETA: Anthony Marks, everyone's favorite Chanticleer and the face of their team that post season, went to the same high school as Trent Vietmeier. Vietmeier's dad was their coach there. They didn't actually play together.

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Just think how good our pitching would be if our 2 high draft picks from last class would be on our roster

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Nate Pearson is the best pitcher in the Blue Jays minor league system. He might make the majors late this year, but probably next year.

Blayne Enlow is a little farther away, but is a prized part of a loaded Twins farm system and plays on an incredibly loaded low A club. With 3B Andrew Bechtold, another JUCO signee from last years class.

Now, if Bechtold were here, we wouldn't have Broussard. Labas was one of the replacements for Enlow and Pearson.

Mainieri loves Mosquito Ball.

I’m aware that we had a power hitter last year. I’m saying it would be nice to have a 3, 4,and 5 hope that could all make you pay with the deep ball

WHich smaller players is lsu throwing out there that yall want replaced? Name names