misey94

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I found it odd that jay built his last team with guys like dickinson and stanny and braswell and luis, won a championship, and then completely shifted philosophy to guys like dardar, simpson, and yorke

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Possibly because we lost all of the power from last year’s lineup other than Brown.

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Schmidt, Fontenot, Rizy had a better ERA than last year. And after tonight, Schmidt is only 0.59 better than last year. Benge along with the others have a worse ERA.

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Some of these are not valid comparisons. Schmidt was an up and down mid-week freshman arm last year and was a complete head case when he got innings in SEC games. This year he’s been our most reliable starter. That’s a COMPLETELY different role. He’s also proven to be a lot tougher mentally than he was as a freshman. That’s not a like for like ERA comparison.

Fontenot barely pitched last year. He’s become one of our most called on bullpen arms in SEC play, and had played even more since Moore went down. Again, using ERA alone as a measure here doesn’t make sense.

Rizy just is what he is- a pitcher with poor mechanics. He hasn’t regressed. He’s still just a guy with velo and no control.

Say what you want about Benge- he’s looked far better in his last few appearances, even giving up a bit in his one batter today, then he EVER did last year. He hardly got on the field the final 1/3 of the season because of how bad he was.

Guidry’s worst appearances of this season came because of Jay asking him to do too much. He melted down as a starter. He can’t go multiple times through an order and got hammered twice when he was left in too long. He wasn’t asked to do that in the past. He has been this year. That isn’t regression. That’s not understanding who he is and using him the wrong way.

Also- you can’t discount how much higher EVERYONE’S ERA is this season due to errors, passed balls by the catchers and not being able to turn DPs. We gave away 2 runs just today by letting base runners move up. There was at least one yesterday.

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Last really defensive catcher we had was Milazzo.

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What are you talking about? Hernandez was a good defensive catcher last year.

Yamin has actually looked really good defensively when given the opportunity.

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We let Brady Neal walk. He's only allowed 4 passed balls all year and is hitting .370 with 7 homers

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Hindsight and all. We let him walk and he really wasn’t that good at Bama last year. He would have rode the pine behind Hernandez and had to battle with Bide to get any time. Who’s to say he makes it to this year if he had been here last season?

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Most of our returning pitchers have actually regressed.

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Only a few haven’t improved, but most of them haven’t actually regressed, either.

Improved over last year:
Schmidt
Fontenot
Benge (small sample size, but he was awful last year)

Pretty much the same:
Cowan
Guidry (as 24)
Rizy (he was this wild most of last year)
Primeaux (hard to say because he’s pitched so little)

Actually Regressed:
Evans (not terrible, but hasn’t been able to own the starter role)
Williams
Noot

Part of the issue is that only Moore has really stepped up out of the portal and freshmen pitchers. Theo and Paz are starting to come around, but others like Dathe, Plog, Ricken, Garcia and Lach have been inconsistent.

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Last year we weren’t shite but got hot at right time.

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The MLB Draft said otherwise. What a fricking take :lol:

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This is not ed Orgeron we are talking about here! Your a grade A bonnifide idiot if you Think that’s going to happen! You actually think Jay forgot how to coach? Thoughful thinking!

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The brainless shithead you are talking to literally compared Jay to O as if they had similar accomplishments last night. This is the level of retard you are dealing with here.

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I’m glad you aren’t in charge of anything at LSU or in a position of any influence.

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He’s just another bullshite alter. Whatever he says doesn’t mean shite.

frick blue.

Milam has had a solid series. Too bad he has no help.

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Paz is doing very well so that’s a positive

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If it comes together for him, he’s got a lot of potential.