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re: LSU Baseball 2025 (and beyond) Recruiting Thread
Posted by nps6724 on 7/17/25 at 12:04 pm to Jim Hopper
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Anyone else find it ironic that Baseball America has LSU as one of the losers in the draft but Tennessee as one of the winners? I think both have the most top 100-120 HS prospects heading to campus. Just seems funny to me.
Did we lose more of our top-end recruits to the draft than Tennessee did? Only thing I can think.
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I don’t think you can judge it strictly on passed balls.
Definitely can't but without reviewing every wild pitch across multiple teams, there's no way to quantify who is at fault or if they would've been blocked with the old technique so it's a moot point.
And with this being college, I would bet the vast majority of wild pitches are solely on the pitcher.
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As long as we are still depending on human umpires that miss pitches all the time (both balls and strikes), the reward of stealing a strike every now and then is not worth the drop in defense that we have seen IMO
I dislike it situationally, but I do think it's a net-positive in the long run.
Comparing our last 3 teams to reach the CWS finals (because they would've played roughly the same number of games):
In 2025, we had 12 passed balls. Our opponents had 10.
In 2023, we had 16 (9 from Travinski). Our opponents had 13.
In 2017, we had 7. Opponent data not available.
LSU's website only goes back to 2014 and the fewest passed balls was 6 (excluding 2020, which had 4).
So we're talking about fewer than 10 extra bases across an entire season. you can steal enough strikes in a weekend series to equal 10 bases.
I will acknowledge this data is incomplete because there's a non-zero amount of wild pitches that could be stopped with the old approach, but there's no way to quantify it so I left it out.
I think it's the new-school teachings regarding framing with the one knee approach. It allows the catcher to steal more strikes, but the downside is it's harder to smother pitches in the dirt.
re: LSU Baseball 2025 (and beyond) Recruiting Thread
Posted by nps6724 on 7/16/25 at 1:31 pm to Yeti_Chaser
I think Noot could start on the weekend, but I'd be surprised if anyone but Evans starts on Fridays.
re: LSU Baseball 2025 (and beyond) Recruiting Thread
Posted by nps6724 on 7/16/25 at 11:38 am to ProjectP2294
I definitely think it was unwarranted. I imagine it came down to prioritizing either offense or defense and he chose offense at Arizona. And when you have big bats like Jacob Berry and Tommy White, they're gonna play regardless of their glove. But both championship runs have been highlighted by extraordinary defense. Tre to Milazzo and Pearson snagging the liner in L:F in 2023 and Brazzy's entire CWS this year.
re: LSU Baseball 2025 (and beyond) Recruiting Thread
Posted by nps6724 on 7/16/25 at 11:08 am to Jack Daniel
At this moment, I think it'll be Evans, Moore, and then either Schmidt or Williams as the weekend rotation. Obviously a lot can and will change between now and February (and then again between February and May lol).
re: LSU Baseball 2025 (and beyond) Recruiting Thread
Posted by nps6724 on 7/15/25 at 4:25 pm to SammyTiger
Federico **might've** gotten some early PAs vs. LHPs since Pearson, Brown, and Larson are all LHHs. But judging by his offensive output, Pearson would've been the guy starting in SEC play vs. LHP and Federico would've been fighting with John P. for PH spots.
re: LSU Baseball 2025 (and beyond) Recruiting Thread
Posted by nps6724 on 7/15/25 at 4:09 pm to hessmersaint
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We won’t have many at all after a few recruiting cycles like this.
The questions to ask are:
1) Who did we not go after who has proven to be SEC-caliber?
2) Who did we go after who chose to go elsewhere?
3) Was there an available starting opportunity for any of those players?
4) Did we sign someone from out-of-state in their place?
It's easy to say we aren't signing enough local kids, but who have we missed on? Like if we didn't sign a LA kid because we signed Curiel and Milam instead, I'm 1000000000% okay with that lol. And without answers to these questions, it's a moot point imo.
re: LSU Baseball 2025 (and beyond) Recruiting Thread
Posted by nps6724 on 7/14/25 at 6:29 pm to SammyTiger
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commitments? They are living on campus
So safe to say things are getting pretty serious?
The Pirates now have the monopoly on Jared Joneses.
Or **do** announce in an effort to force a team's hand and pony up the money you're looking for.
I just assume every top school in all the major sports are constantly pushing/exceeding the limits in recruiting. I would bet at least half the SEC tampers.
re: LSU Baseball 2025 (and beyond) Recruiting Thread
Posted by nps6724 on 7/11/25 at 8:34 am to BayTiger13
I mean, ultimately mocks are thought exercises and engagement farms with no real value. Even the best mocks are batting less than Dylan Crews. And that's no fault to the writers, but you have 30 teams using 30 different draft strategies, philosophies, and evals with varying degrees of smarts. They're a decent gauge of where you can expect guys to get picked, but that's about it imo. And even then, it's hit-and-miss.
It's gotta be weird for all the incoming freshmen to move in, get acclimated, start bonding, only for some of them to leave a couple weeks later because they got drafted high.
Not throwing shade at anyone who takes the money, just an odd situation for everyone involved.
Not throwing shade at anyone who takes the money, just an odd situation for everyone involved.
That's at least better than the comparisons to Coach O lol
Yeah, it was ridiculous how they jumped Texas, Arkansas, and LSU on the basis of a tournament those 3 teams didn't really care about.
re: LSU Baseball 2025 (and beyond) Recruiting Thread
Posted by nps6724 on 7/2/25 at 7:02 pm to ccarrone0313
I think the 2024 freshmen got opportunities more due to lack of other options and guys who didn't live up to expectations. If Milam didn't play 2nd, the other options were Nippolt, Pearson, or another freshman. Larson and Brown finished the season 9th and 12th in PAs, Larson only ahead of the catching tandem among the starters (Neal and Milazzo were 10th and 11th).
Credit where it's due, they played well when given their shots. But I don't think that was the intention going into the season.
Credit where it's due, they played well when given their shots. But I don't think that was the intention going into the season.
8 HRs in 30 innings is a lot, but only 1 double. Really odd statline there. Wish there was an easy way to see all those HRs to see if there were some mitigating factors for the spike. You'd think if he was getting hit that hard, there'd be more doubles to go along with it. Seems like anything hit hard against him left the park.
re: LSU Baseball 2025 (and beyond) Recruiting Thread
Posted by nps6724 on 7/1/25 at 11:03 am to BayTiger13
And something that might work against LSU this year is that these guys just won a natty. There's nothing new for guys like Frey to chase.
re: LSU Baseball 2025 (and beyond) Recruiting Thread
Posted by nps6724 on 6/28/25 at 11:01 pm to Datsmoneydude
Yeah, you're right. My memory has failed me spectacularly.
I still think Curiel would be the pick over Jake in CF, but yeah I was way off.
I still think Curiel would be the pick over Jake in CF, but yeah I was way off.
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