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Yeskie can make a good pitcher great, but can’t make an ok pitcher good
Posted on 4/27/26 at 9:08 am
Posted on 4/27/26 at 9:08 am
His approach is to develop mlb future pitchers who can develop 4 professional pitches.
He functions in many ways like a minor league pitching instructor
He can’t develop pitchers who can’t find the goddamn plate or can only pitch a strike if its middle middle.
This approach means we will have either elite pitchers or terrible pitchers.
Recruiting thus becomes insanely important. Recruit the right guys and he takes them to next level. Recruit the wrong guys and it’s a disaster.
He functions in many ways like a minor league pitching instructor
He can’t develop pitchers who can’t find the goddamn plate or can only pitch a strike if its middle middle.
This approach means we will have either elite pitchers or terrible pitchers.
Recruiting thus becomes insanely important. Recruit the right guys and he takes them to next level. Recruit the wrong guys and it’s a disaster.
This post was edited on 4/27/26 at 9:09 am
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Posted on 4/27/26 at 9:10 am to LSUFanHouston
Kinda like his boss. Be interesting if lil jj fires him to quell the rebellion.
Posted on 4/27/26 at 9:32 am to redfish99
JJ loves Yeskie, he's not firing him
Posted on 4/27/26 at 9:33 am to redfish99
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Kinda like his boss.
In what way?
Posted on 4/27/26 at 9:43 am to LSUFanHouston
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His approach is to develop mlb future pitchers who can develop 4 professional pitches.
He functions in many ways like a minor league pitching instructor
Bold take considering we arent involved or present for the training process.
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He can’t develop pitchers who can’t find the goddamn plate or can only pitch a strike if its middle middle.
This makes no sense. Please explain how he can train them to presumably throw to a spot like “middle middle” but not to sides of the plate. Please explain how that training process works
Posted on 4/27/26 at 9:48 am to LSUFanHouston
I agree with this, which is why I hope we see yeskie take some type of minor league job or something. He obviously knows the game, but it doesn’t seem that he is best suited for this job.
Posted on 4/27/26 at 9:51 am to DirtyMike14
You want him to go? Wait there really are people who want Yeskie out?
You guys are something else.
You guys are something else.
Posted on 4/27/26 at 9:52 am to DirtyMike14
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I agree with this, which is why I hope we see yeskie take some type of minor league job or something. He obviously knows the game, but it doesn’t seem that he is best suited for this job.
His whole career has been based around developing guys over multiple seasons. There were some questions around if he could have short term development success in the portal era, and then we won a championship with one of the main pieces being a portal recruit he had for less than a year.
And you're saying a guy that's proven to be one of the most successful pitching coaches in college baseball (again because of the mult-year development) should move to a role where he would have even more turnover of players and less long-term development opportunities?
Posted on 4/27/26 at 10:20 am to LSUFanHouston
So let me get this right, People actually think that Nate is not teaching pitchers to throw over the plate and hit their spots. Jay Johnson puts us in a shift and our pitchers can not pitch against the shift. We do not hit spots. The problem we have is that we do not have any bulldogs on the mound this year. Even Guidry is not at his normal shove it up your A&& self.
We just missed on a solid pitching staff this year. They looked good on paper but have failed to perform. It happens.
Nate Yeskie is one of the top pitching coaches in the country. I am not for or against him as a coach. I just know he is a national level pitching coach.
I am amazed that so many people try to question his ability as our pitching coach.
At some point this lack of production falls on the athlete to perform on the mound when they are called upon. We have kids coming out of the bullpen throwing 4 straight balls. This is on the athlete.
I do question pitch calls sometimes. But when a kid can only throw a strike with a curve and misses with a fastball, what are you going to call.
All we can do as a peanut gallery is support the process. The process does not work the same every year for every player. The NIL/transfer thing has hurt us and Jay has admitted he did not make the correct choices. I trust him to fix the issues. We as fans should trust his process.
We just missed on a solid pitching staff this year. They looked good on paper but have failed to perform. It happens.
Nate Yeskie is one of the top pitching coaches in the country. I am not for or against him as a coach. I just know he is a national level pitching coach.
I am amazed that so many people try to question his ability as our pitching coach.
At some point this lack of production falls on the athlete to perform on the mound when they are called upon. We have kids coming out of the bullpen throwing 4 straight balls. This is on the athlete.
I do question pitch calls sometimes. But when a kid can only throw a strike with a curve and misses with a fastball, what are you going to call.
All we can do as a peanut gallery is support the process. The process does not work the same every year for every player. The NIL/transfer thing has hurt us and Jay has admitted he did not make the correct choices. I trust him to fix the issues. We as fans should trust his process.
Posted on 4/27/26 at 10:22 am to LSUFanHouston
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His approach is to develop mlb future pitchers who can develop 4 professional pitches.
This sounds like something you pulled from deep inside your arse. How do you know this?
Posted on 4/27/26 at 10:23 am to LSUFanHouston
During the very beginning of and prior to the season, there was talk about many of our pitchers working on multiple new pitches. In my very unkowledgable opinion on the matter, I think it’s possible several tried to chew too much at one time. Possible not being able to hone in any one specific pitch.
Posted on 4/27/26 at 10:49 am to Sir Fury
You do not forget how to throw a fastball to a spot, you are not allowed to throw a new pitch until you master it. Regardless if they are working new pitches in or not, they should be able to hit a spot with a fastball they have been throwing for years in most cases. Just my opinion.
Posted on 4/27/26 at 11:39 am to LSUFanHouston
Noted
This post was edited on 4/27/26 at 11:42 am
Posted on 4/27/26 at 11:40 am to nogoodjr
He did not pitch for Yeskie at LSU.
ETA: He (Riley Cooper) did pitch for him at Arizona.
But I think a good example from LSU is Christian Little, but there are a lot of people that will refuse to acknowledge how good he got prior to injury in 2024.
ETA: He (Riley Cooper) did pitch for him at Arizona.
But I think a good example from LSU is Christian Little, but there are a lot of people that will refuse to acknowledge how good he got prior to injury in 2024.
This post was edited on 4/27/26 at 11:44 am
Posted on 4/27/26 at 11:45 am to lionscoach
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We as fans should trust his process.
9 SEC losses in a row and 6-15 record leads to reasonable fans questioning the process. Blind trust is not a recipe for sustained success.
Posted on 4/27/26 at 11:49 am to LSUFanHouston
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His approach is to develop mlb future pitchers who can develop 4 professional pitches. He functions in many ways like a minor league pitching instructor He can’t develop pitchers who can’t find the goddamn plate or can only pitch a strike if its middle middle. This approach means we will have either elite pitchers or terrible pitchers. Recruiting thus becomes insanely important. Recruit the right guys and he takes them to next level. Recruit the wrong guys and it’s a disaster.
Care to add any sort of basis or reasoning?
Because best I can tell, this is just some BS that passed through your head and you decide to make a thread…. But I see no basis in fact, at all.
Posted on 4/27/26 at 1:35 pm to BilJ
Some people here like to compare him to Saban. He's obviously not like him if he hangs on to coaches based on loyalty.
Posted on 4/27/26 at 1:40 pm to Sir Fury
Skip once said during an interview that if a pitcher can't hit the zone with a specific pitch at least seven out of ten times, he shouldn't be throwing that pitch in a game situation.
Posted on 4/27/26 at 1:44 pm to lionscoach
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At some point this lack of production falls on the athlete to perform on the mound when they are called upon. We have kids coming out of the bullpen throwing 4 straight balls. This is on the athlete.
This. At some point these guys have to hit their spots.
Posted on 4/27/26 at 2:06 pm to josh336
Some pitchers choke and some need experience facing good hitters before they can improve. Several of his portal guys came from weak arse conferences.
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