re: 2026 Louisiana HS Baseball Season

There are plenty of good arms in NJCAA baseball that didn't have PBR/PG baseball pimping them like the usual suspects.

Go Juco and get guaranteed innings and continue to hone your skills for when it is time to move on. Jay right now is caught up in the 95+ but that proved wrong this year.

I witnessed this past fall a 6'-8" guy throwing 97 at Northwest Mississippi CC. In Region 2 tournament, my son's team faced a dude throwing 90-94 with ease. Even a kid on my son's team has hit 96. Some are probably due to grades while others just didn't get recruited. Some of it is doing well on the right day when someone is looking.

Also not taking anything away from Cupid. He is a complete dude.

Just watched this kid pitch all year and he was a difference maker in dutchtown. 4 pitches and velo is increasing
Up to 93. Hell this week threw 112 pitches then came back in 4 days and threw a 3 hitter ok 100+ pitches.

My son played with him growing up so been following.

so I guess we know each other

Gavin Foreman at #10 is a joke. That guy is a good, not great, HS pitcher.

Definitely no knee in the nuts or anything egregious from the baserunner as some were touting

He goes to the inside of the bag on purpose to crowd the 1st baseman which is likely taught by his coach (kinda douchey) but it’s nothing that bad

1st baseman just kinda goes crazy

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He goes to the inside of the bag on purpose to crowd the 1st baseman which is likely taught by his coach (kinda douchey) but it’s nothing that bad

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It looks on purpose to me as well, and agree it's something he's probably been coached to do. The runner definitely initiates contact and could have been warned or called out for it. I wouldn't have ejected him for his part unless he'd been warned previously. The 1B is an auto-eject for his part, although I sympathize with his frustration.

This is the kind of stuff Barbe and Zachary used to be known for in the past. Zachary actually had two separate brawls against St. Amant and Teurlings years ago on plays similar to this. It's basically antagonize your opponent until he overreacts, and it usually works like it did here. This is where good proactive umpiring will know what to look for and nip it in the bud.

so i dont have a dog in the fight....

I was pulling for dutchtown and the SH kid did look like he kneed him in the nuts but the Dtwon kid did over react but i actually enjoyed it, not gonna lie

but jesus christ the dutchtown people are whiny as frick. the louisiana scoreboard guy whines about everything. he is still posting about how SH whole team should have been thrown out

he is still whining about barbe saying they recruit and have tons of kids from out of zone and out of state....which is 100% false.

then went on to claim how SH and Barbe shouldnt even be allowed to play as they arent true public schools etc etc.

it gets old as frick and the AP schools whine so fricking much about everything. SO in the end im glad SH kicked their asses because the Dtown people have become giant pussies about everything.

you had a great run and should be proud but stop whining acting like yall are perfectly moral school that should be the model for others. the holier than thou attitude is annoying AF.

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It’s really just the growth of SWLA is going North into Moss Bluff and Ragley and south which is Barbe still. But it turned SH into a 5A school and South Beau into a 3A school and both are still growing. But SH is one of the smallest 5A schools in the state. Barbe is still a great school but it’s over crowded and land locked. The only reason another school hasn’t been built south of town is Barbe baseball. The golf course in Westlake has helped that school a ton also. And the city invests in the facilities for the school.

But 85-90% of kids go to public schools in SWLA. That’s not the case in the rest of the state. It’s not bc people can’t afford it. Just that our public schools are still really good. St. Louis Catholic is about to build a new campus and it’s the only private school option for baseball now.

But as LSU777 has said. It’s the coaches and commitment to year long development. It’s the culture of the community to own their own development. Barbe created it. Now others are following it also. The formula for winning 5A state used to be 2 quality arms. Now it’s pitching depth. Gotta have 4-5 arms to win 3 games.

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pretty much. I will say the travel kids in SWLA do not play as many games in the summer/fall for the most part. They train a lot more than the BR kids, especially the nola kids

and whoever said its mainly barbe and SH are 100% wrong. Go check the number of champions or runner ups from the metro area since covid. The metro has less than 300k and you have championships from

Barbe
SH
Iowa
St Louis
Westlake
Dequincy
South Beau

and

grandlake has 2 runner ups
Sulphur has consistently been really good
Vinton and Welsh have had deep runs
Kinder has been very good too

the biggest thing is coaches and year around training(i didnt say playing) and its a culture where your best players are expected to play. Many times the travel teams, especially by 12 are mainly compromised of kids going to 1 school. some are mixed but its similar. Sulphur has the Tornado Athletics team that feeds them, prospects has turned into a feeder for Sam Houston, Welsh has WAR, Iowa has very strong middle school program etc. many of the kids too will go play 16u HS ball in the summer between 7/8th grade



We have some really good training in this area too for pitching. You have Wade Leblanc, DC Arceneaux, Jared Gothreaux, Dillon Carrol are all great pitching coaches. then you have Trahans "the U" up in kinder and then you have Jordin Griffins dad doing S&C


if you are in LC and want your kid to go to a good school, you really only have the choice to send to Barbe, SH and St Louis. St Louis hasnt finished new school yet and Barbe and SH both have good academics, especially AP programs. Westlake is good school as is sulphur AP so parents are able to send kids to public and still be fine.

Also with the growth of the LNG and petrochem industry in the area over the last 15 years, you have had a lot of families that are more affluent and can afford all the baseball training move into the area.

Not going to get into what’s right and wrong, who’s whiny, etc.
I was one of the closest people to first base. He was kneed in the nuts 4 times before this. Go look at the other angle from the one posted here. It’s clear that they were being coached to do this. He asked for the ump’s input. Ump did nothing. This time was a knee to the nuts and an elbow in the chest. The umpire failed him. He did what he did and received consequences by getting ejected. This is a kid that you are continuing to talk about.

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goes to the inside of the bag on purpose to crowd the 1st baseman which is likely taught by his coach (kinda douchey) but it’s nothing that bad

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the contact was not unavoidable. The runner should be called out. The contact from R1 is interference.

But no one was kneed in the nuts on this play