Portcityblues

The Correctional system Rec leagues will be stronger than ever in 10-15 years is my best guess. Just throwing a lot of money at kids and allowing and even encouraging to switch every year is setting them up for failure in the future if they aren't playing professionally, which most won't. I would love to sit in on the job interview when they tell the former athlete they would pay him like $40-$50k per year to start and then the athlete starts laughing and says they wouldn't even get out of bed for that.

Would be a good piece but you do realize if that’s what he wanted all he had to do was enter portal with no contact. Didn’t have to enter draft too.

I would still be ecstatic with what his finish is and what his check will end up being for this week

Maybe he was watching our best hitter do that all day. Although if you ask people on here he just got screwed by the umpire.

Ump likes them high pitches today

Need to go get a couple more scorers/sharpshooters along with a couple big girls with some skills preferably one in the 6’5” range or bigger. Assuming those girls exist in the portal then go get em

You will have some years like this. Portal is not an exact science just like HS recruiting. A lot of portal talent is trying to take a step up in competition and you have to see if that translates successfully. Some times it will and sometimes it won’t. He didn’t totally miss. We got a weekend rotational guy a couple bullpen arms and Dardar has been coming on lately to make 2B more bearable. As of now, Carraway, Simpson and Yorke have been duds for most part. However if you looked at Carraway stats he was a streaky hitter and had a great post season run last year. Jay probably thought he saw something he could tweak to make him more consistent just hasn’t worked. We knew he wasn’t great defensively coming in. You can’t judge when a kid gets paid to transfer here and gets a little more money and the LSU on his chest and thinks he made it and doesn’t have to work as hard as he needs to so he can contribute. That is a crap shoot. Who translates to this level and conference, plus who will remain hungry and put in the work vs who will be just happy to be here.

Would come down to a decision between:

-leverage of being able to return so maybe drafted higher

Vs

-importance of improving offensive side of game for long term success professionally even if drafted a little lower

most will probably pick the leverage and drafted higher with belief they can improve offensive side as they work through minor league ball. So end up being correct and some not

Thought I saw the other day Graves was going into the draft? Did that change or did I see it wrong?

It has to be true b/c if he is the next Ja Morant then he was probably already sold on LSU due to our last McCoach. Thank you MM

Patience there Burger King. they will start rolling in soon enough