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re: What is problem with Tiger pitching.5
Posted on 4/27/26 at 11:38 pm to KCSunshine
Posted on 4/27/26 at 11:38 pm to KCSunshine
Mental, mental, mental. It's purely mental collapses compounded by the fact in the back of your head you know the guy behind the plate is awful, and your infield can't help you at all. So it just piles pressure on them mentally. Then when ump decides he has a 5 inch strike zone that isn't helping either. It just all collapses at once and this has been the story of LSU pitching this year. Trying too hard with complete collapses.
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Posted on 4/28/26 at 7:57 am to friendlyobservation
It's more pitch selection thsn anything else. We call too many sliders and our pitches can't throw or place it. This isn't high school. Weekend series are not when you should be learning or experimenting.
The issues we have fielding and the catchers are just making the problem worse. So you take a guy who can throw high fastballs and let him throw. Challenge hitters. Todd Walker said as much. No one wanted to hear it. Pitch selection is killing us. Walker said Skip almost never called for sliders. Walker spoke from a hitter's perspective, and said college hitters are still not polished enough to adjust. People on here think it's a shot at Yeskie's coaching, it's not. He may know way more than Walker about pitching which no one said he didn't, but he definitly knows less about hitting. He has a professinal mindset about selection. He is essentially giving batters too much credit. Make a sub 200 batter hit the ball.
Our strategy is not working with all the other problems we have. If these guys consistenly are throwing the wrong pitch at the wrong time. It is more that we are asking them to throw pitches they can't than they are just choosing to throw the wrong pitch. If that is the case, it would mean the whole staff is just doing what they want and the catchers aren't doing their jobs. Then LSU has problems that only a wholesale change would fix.
The issues we have fielding and the catchers are just making the problem worse. So you take a guy who can throw high fastballs and let him throw. Challenge hitters. Todd Walker said as much. No one wanted to hear it. Pitch selection is killing us. Walker said Skip almost never called for sliders. Walker spoke from a hitter's perspective, and said college hitters are still not polished enough to adjust. People on here think it's a shot at Yeskie's coaching, it's not. He may know way more than Walker about pitching which no one said he didn't, but he definitly knows less about hitting. He has a professinal mindset about selection. He is essentially giving batters too much credit. Make a sub 200 batter hit the ball.
Our strategy is not working with all the other problems we have. If these guys consistenly are throwing the wrong pitch at the wrong time. It is more that we are asking them to throw pitches they can't than they are just choosing to throw the wrong pitch. If that is the case, it would mean the whole staff is just doing what they want and the catchers aren't doing their jobs. Then LSU has problems that only a wholesale change would fix.
Posted on 4/28/26 at 9:25 am to tiger94gop
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Walker said Skip almost never called for sliders.
We should definitely never call them then. Nothing about baseball has changed in the last 35 years after all.
Posted on 4/28/26 at 9:31 am to Leopard7
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Schmidt was cruising until the ump gave him bad call on a 3/2 count. It looked like he wanted to cry. Then he loads the bases with wild pitches and voila; HOME RUN. These kids are very immature!
Which comes back to Yeskie for not having these kids mentally tough enough to overcome adversity.
They play with catastrophe syndrome that’s on Yeskie and why he’ll be the sacrificial lamb after the season.
Posted on 4/28/26 at 9:40 am to Geauxldilocks
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They play with catastrophe syndrome that’s on Yeskie and why he’ll be the sacrificial lamb after the season.
You seem very sure of this. What makes you so sure?
Posted on 4/28/26 at 11:45 am to KCSunshine
Most of them are big throwers, not pitchers. Poorly coached and taught how to pitch. That is one reason LSU leads the nation in pass balls/wild pitches. I'm not sure hit batters is counted in that total, but LSU has to be near the lead in that category also. My favorite is when LSU hits 9 hole hitters on 0-2 counts. 
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