I'll start by saying that these are not official stats from SEC website or anything...just my count I have kept throughout the season. Yes there's probably a few mistakes in there somewhere, especially OBP because the box scores do not show HBP, so none of those are in here, meaning most players who have received some HBP actually have a slightly higher OBP, but it's still pretty close.

We were barely above our season average for hitting in a series that we won 2-1. We only outscored Auburn 13-9 over the course of 3 games. Until Sunday, the pitching/defense had been great. Pitching wasn't great today. Offense doesn't have it going. Hit 5 HRs to score 13 runs total. Pretty sure all but Milam's today were solo shots.

Bingham, Pearson, and Kling all trying to see who sucks less right now to hold down 2 of the outfield spots. Larson has a firm grip on his and has been out best/most consistent hitter since he has had playing time. Who saw that at the beginning of the year?

Tommy White has struggled for 2 straight series. His OBP and AVG have dropped as low as they've every been for us I believe. The few hits he has had have basically been homers.

Braswell, Milazzo, Travinski all had a decent series. They are the only players other than Larson hitting over .300 in SEC play.

Jones was pretty true to his season averages...striking out a few times, being walked a few times, hitting a bomb and a couple more that were nearly bombs.

Milam struggled this weekend at the plate.

Bingham:
First 6 series: 17-69 .246 21K 4BB 5HR .288OBP
vs Auburn: 0-5 1K 1BB
SEC Total: 17-74 .230 22K 5BB 5HR .278OBP

White:
First 6 series: 23-78 .295 12K 9BB 9HR .368OBP
vs Auburn: 3-13 4K 2HR
SEC Total: 26-91 .286 16K 9BB 11HR .350OBP

Jones:
First 6 series: 18-67 .269 25K 11BB 5HR .372OBP
vs Auburn: 3-11 .273 4K 2BB 1HR
SEC Total: 21-78 .269 29K 13BB 6HR .374OBP

Travinski:
First 6 series: 19-64 .297 23K 2BB 6HR .318OBP
vs Auburn: 4-11 .364 3K 1BB 1HR
SEC Total: 23-75 .307 26K 3BB 7HR .333OBP

Milam:
First 6 series: 14-63 .222 13K 5BB 1HR .279OBP
vs Auburn: 1-9 .111 4K 2BB 1HR
SEC Total: 15-72 .208 15K 7BB 2HR .316OBP

Braswell:
First 6 series: 19-55 .345 11K 11BB .455OBP
vs Auburn: 4-10 .400 2K 2BB
SEC Total: 23-65.354 13K 13BB .462OBP

Pearson:
First 6 series: 12-52 .231 12K 2BB 2HR .259OBP
vs Auburn: 2-10 .200 3K 1BB
SEC Total: 14-62 .226 15K 3BB 2HR .262OBP

Neal:
First 6 series: 4-35 .114 12K 6BB 1HR .244OBP
vs Auburn: 0-0
SEC Total: 4-35 .114 12K 6BB 1HR .244OBP

Kling:
First 6 series: 7-39 .179 15K 7BB .304 OBP
vs Auburn: 0-6 4K 1BB
SEC Total: 7-45 .156 19K 8BB .283OBP

Larson:
First 6 series: 15-38 .395 13K 5BB 3HR .465OBP
vs Auburn: 6-13 2K
SEC Total: 21-51 .412 15K 5BB 3HR .464OBP

Frey:
First 6 series: 4-22 .182 10K 2BB .250OBP
vs Auburn: 0-0
SEC Total: 4-22 .182 10K 2BB .250OBP

Milazzo:
First 6 series: 4-12 .333 4K 4BB .500OBP
vs Auburn: 4-11 .364 4K
SEC Total: 8-23 .348 8K 4BB .444OBP

Brown:
First 6 series: 1-10 .100 3K .100OBP
vs Auburn: 0-0
SEC Total: 1-10 .100 3K .100OBP

Kuckerak:
First 6 series: 0-1 .000
vs Auburn: 0-0
SEC Total: 0-1 .000

TEAM First 6 Series: 157-605 .260 173K 75BB 32HR .341OBP
TEAM Vs Auburn: 27-99 .273 31K 10BB 5HR .339OBP
TEAM SEC Totals: 184-704 .261 204K 85BB 37HR .341OBP

ETA: I never realized LSU had the SEC-Only seasons tats on their website...I only ever saw the whole season. Here's the link to those, I'm off be a few at bats per player like I figured it would be

LSU SEC ONLY STATS

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Posted by oreeg

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Posted on 4/28/24 at 6:26 pm to NWLATigerFan12

So basically Braswell, Larson and Milazzo are the only performing to standard or above.

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Posted by BigDaddySims

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Posted on 4/28/24 at 6:27 pm to NWLATigerFan12

Bingham, White, Jones, & King were terrible.

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Posted by DBG

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Posted on 4/28/24 at 6:33 pm to NWLATigerFan12

quote:
184-704 .261 204K 85BB

We struck out 249 times in the entire SEC season last year. And had 175 walks.

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Posted by kbtigers85

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Posted on 4/28/24 at 6:47 pm to NWLATigerFan12

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vs Auburn: 3-13 4K 2HR

I love Tommy and he’s by far the best player on the team so it doesn’t seem fair to single him out but he’s gotta give us more than solo HRs. He had some terrible ABs with runners on base this series

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Posted by Choupique19

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Posted on 4/28/24 at 7:51 pm to kbtigers85

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He had some terrible ABs with runners on base this season

Fixed it

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Posted by NWLATigerFan12

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Posted on 4/28/24 at 7:53 pm to kbtigers85

Lot of that has to do with how teams are pitching him with and without runners on base. With bases empty, teams are attacking him with fastballs and trying not to walk him with Jones behind him. This leads to him getting some pitches to hit and hitting some solo HR.

With bases loaded, teams are throwing him off speed trying not to get beat by him. Instead of being patient and working some good ABs, he's swinging out of his shoes at balls 6" low or outside trying to do damage...just hasn't been able to do it often enough.

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Posted by notbilly

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Posted on 4/28/24 at 8:04 pm to oreeg

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So basically Braswell, Larson and Milazzo are the only performing to standard or above.

I'm not sure what your standard is. White is .286. Travinski is .293 after today. (correct stats, not OPs). White isn't hitting like he did last year, but he's not shitting the bed. Travinki is doing MUCH better than Beloso did last year at DH.

For reference, last year's Natty-winning team wasn't killing it in SEC play. 2023 SEC batting averages

.405 Crews
.361 White
.303 Jobert
.281 Morgan
.256 Jones
.254 Thompson
.241 Beleso
.200 Dugas

Travinski, Pearson, , etc didn't have enough at bats to qualify in 2023 SEC play.

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Posted by ezraman1

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Posted on 4/28/24 at 8:11 pm to NWLATigerFan12

Seeing all this in black and white, it’s far from a blip or trend…it’s some bad hitting going on at lsu. Might be the worst offense in two decades. Wow, none of the new plug and play guys have gotten in done from the plate except Braswell and Larson. Yikes, this is bad.

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Posted by da prophet

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Posted on 4/28/24 at 8:31 pm to notbilly

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For reference, last year's Natty-winning team wasn't killing it in SEC play. 2023 SEC batting averages

.405 Crews
.361 White
.303 Jobert
.281 Morgan
.256 Jones
.254 Thompson
.241 Beleso
.200 Dugas

It's like I've been saying it's not so much a hitting problem as it's a scoring problem. Yesterdays game was a great example, 10 hits, 5 walks only 3 runs and 12 LOB.

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Posted by NWLATigerFan12

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Posted on 4/28/24 at 10:45 pm to notbilly

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.405 Crews .545 OBP ----------- .412 Larson .484 OBP
.361 White .415 OBP ----------- .354 Braswell .468 OBP
.356 Travinski .455 OBP ------- .320 Milazzo .414 OBP (both very limited ABs as they did not start all year)
.303 Jobert .405 OBP ---------- .293 Travinski .376 OBP
.281 Morgan .409 OBP -------- .286 White .356 OBP
.256 Jones .379 OBP ---------- .269 Jones .394 OBP
.254 Thompson .372 OBP ----- .234 Pearson .310 OBP
.241 Beleso .414 OBP ---------- .230 Bingham .288 OBP
.200 Dugas .425 OBP ---------- .208 Milam .278 OBP
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.246 Pearson .434 OBP ------- .156 Kling .291 OBP
.239 Milazzo .327 OBP -------- .114 Neal .262 OBP
.161 Kling .235 OBP -----------
.156 Neal .300 OBP -----------

Added a few guys to your post, basically made it so that everybody with 30 or more at bats is listed.

White, Travinski, and Pearson have all dropped in performance from last year. Travinski has had double the ABs this year so far than he did last year and only has 2 more HR and RBI than he did last year. White actually has more HR already than last year in SEC play, but less than half the RBI because he doesn't have Crews on base dang near every time, and he hasn't been coming through when there are guys on.

Braswell has been a big upgrade over Thompson in average, but Thompson ended up with more run production at 7HR/26 RBI where Braswell has 0/7. Again, must not be people on base for him, hitting .350 should have more than 7 RBI in 21 games. Braswell also has a slightly better fielding percentage.

Jones this year and last year are very similar. He's on pace to have about the same average, BBs, Ks. Already has more homeruns, but again less RBI because of all the solo HR.

The big difference from this year to last year is the OBP. Last year, even your guys with lower averages were .400+ OBP. 8 guys over .400. This year, only 3. Last year, none of the top 11 hitters below .300 OBP. This year, 4 of the top 11 hitters below .300. So guys at the bottom aren't getting on base, Bingham and Kling who have led off most SEC games aren't getting on base much. Milam who has been 2 hole or at the bottom isn't getting on base. So when the hitters come up at 2/3/4/5, bases are empty nearly every time, hence the lack of HR other than solos and lack of runs scored.

Also, last year we averaged over 1 less strikeout per game, and we already have as many GIDP in 21 games as we did all last year in 29 games. 18 Sac fly/Sac bunts last year as opposed to 8 this year. Not moving guys around and producing runs. 236 BB and HBP last year (8.14 per game) to 103 this year (4.9 per game). All those little things add up over the course f games. If you go back to those games that we lost especially early in the year, give us 1 less strikeout, 3 more BB/HBP, a sac fly somewhere and not ground into a double play somewhere...chances are we have a few more wins.

Runners LOB? Last year, 271 LOB (9.34 per game). This year, 162 (7.71 per game). So we are leaving less guys on base this year...just getting less guys on base this year.

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