re: The official Doughty to 3rd thread

Morgan is great at first base, but damn does he have to work that hard? I keep waiting for him to get hurt.Lets make some decent throws! Some change might be good.

Doughty is not a very good 2nd baseman... out of position!

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Well for how poorly he supposedly plays defense he has zero errors on the year

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That doesn't nearly tell the story.

No way you move Morgan. In order for this team to improve to where in needs to be is you move Berry to DH, Gio to rt. Keep Crews in center or rt. Dugas left. Put Cade at 3rd, Merrfield or Bianco at 2nd. Thompson is also a liability and is not improving in the field so you could put Bianco there. Jobert if he can play rt could switch out with GIO depending on who is the hotter hitter. I would rather Gio because of his speed in the field and base paths.

We will see. We aren’t at practice so we don’t have the view of the coaches and Merrifield does have a cannon and very good instincts so I can see tinkering with him at third, but I’d rather the guy that may not make all of the plays but does a better job consistently than one that can flash. Just my opinion.

Sorry. The only infield position even adequately defended is 1st Base. Doughty, Thompson, Merrifield, and Berry all have inferior arms, and certainly not SEC caliber. None of them can field ground balls. Berry’s failure to hit the cut off twice gave up two runs. The hitting coach has done nothing but further individualize what was supposed to be a team. Crews stance is wide and his swing begins behind his head. He can’t catch up to a mediocre fast ball. None of them can hit a left hander. None of them can hit a curve. The pitching coach is much improved. He is trying everyone. When the season is late, we won’t run out of experienced pitchers as we have the last ten years. Our hitting is unplanned. “Just hit fastballs boy! But don’t work their starting pitcher. Don’t work the pitch count. After all, we don’t want to get into their relief pitching. We want all of their starting pitchers to go 9 innings, right?” And our lead off hitter, never having seen their starting pitcher in his entire life, swings at the first pitch of the game. This is an example of superior coaching? It’s certainly not an example of teamwork! It is an example of selfish arrogance. A game lead off hitter should look at pitches until strike 2, to tell his team mates about the movement on the fastball and break on the curve. LSU hitters don’t talk to any teammates like it’s a secret. Right now, without some significant changes, this team better look forward to a lot of left handers, the worst defense in the SEC, and the first failure to make the SEC Tournament. I am surprised at the quality of the starters, but the relief pitchers need to get in shape. It’s obvious the pitchers haven’t been running. It’s also obvious the pitching coach doesn’t believe in pitchers running by his svelt figure. But even if they do run, they can’t win with that hapless defense.

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Fully agree. Hopefully Gio moves to OF (preferably center due to his speed and move Crews to right), Doughty to 3rd, Berry to DH.

Committee at second base with Merrifield getting first looks and maybe also try Cranford or Bianco.

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Only problem is Jobert

That dude needs to get ABs

Thompson was hurt and is getting his feet back under. I’ll give him some time.

I say BS. He was bad last year also.