re: Trey Watkins given his walking papers by Mainieri

that's what i don't get .. i could see 11 pages if he told austin nola or tyler hanover goodbye .. but come on .. trey watkins ?? who gives a frick .. and LOL at all the people pissing and moaning about letting him go before the draft .. yeah .. many a major league team out there is looking for a .218 lead off man with a .301 OBP that has a 50-50 shot of catching a fly ball with a coaches pitch arm ..

Do not forget that we need to make room for other players coming in. Ware is most likely done as a baseball player too. He had plenty of chances and look mediocre at best. His future is football.

So that is 5 spots opened (Watkins, Ware, Mahtook, Alsup, Bradshaw) with the possibility for another 4 open spots following the draft(Nola, Ott, Jones, Hanover).

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Ware is most likely done as a baseball player too. He had plenty of chances and look mediocre at best.

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I'm not buying any of that. Ware possibly could have been our starting left fielder if he didn't have to miss 3 SEC weekends to practice football. Chad Jones was a junior before he contributed to the LSU baseball team.

I would have given him his walking papers about 20 games into the season.

Dude is 5'4" and tried to hit a homerun every at bat as a leadoff hitter. He had the worse at bats of any starter on the team.

I wish him the best at what ever he does just glad he is not at LSU anymore.

I mean, I get it the kid had a bad year. BUT you don't see coaches just dropping players for having a bad year too often....there must be more to this story

No, I'm arguing you're a fricking idiot from the getgo. After the murderer's row we had to start the season and the guy capped out at a .253/.400 you really thought he could maintain that?

I'll admit, I was pretty disappointed when I heard this news, and I clearly was not a big Watkins fan. I was disappointed because he could have been a very good leadoff man, he has the speed, patience, and eye...he just can't hit real well and it hasn't clicked since his injury last year.

But, I would have preferred he stayed on as a bench player, he would have been useful in that role.

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Buzzy Haydel

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That guy played every position, even pitcher. Not a standout but pretty damn versatile.

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That's a big fricking mistake.




What? Batting .225?

Surely, I presume he could help the team as a bench player.

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Like the article said, Watkins was tried as a DH also, and that didn't exactly get his average up either. The point is, if Mainieri doesn't win, he doesn't stay, so can you blame him for doing whatever possible to get this team winning again? As a fan, if we come back next year and make it to Omaha, are you really going to remember Watkins?? Remember, this is not the first time PM had house cleaning, he did the same thing after he replaced Smoke, and the results were a success, we won in Omaha. For whatever reason, the ship has a hole in it, and something needs to be done- if players have to go, so be it...