BayTiger13

I don't think it is likely he gets that 5 mil. Question is what happens when 3-3.5 is thrown in your face. He is the 8th LHP when you look at MLB.com prospect rankings. Only 3 of those are college guys and the other 4 in front of him in rankings are HS. The other HS LHP are ranked 24 or above and Schmidt is ranked 45.

I know all it takes is one team to like him more than others but also have to consider other team needs may not be LHP plus they may go with college or another HS arm. I just don't see how he gets 5mil.

More likely to have a scenario like Briggs McKenzie where he may end up falling a little then a team has savings figured out and throws him 3 mil in the 4th round.

No. Only 2 recruits are DES. Anthony Murphy and CJ Weinstein as far as I know.

Which also goes into the conversation from earlier with Armstrong eluding to a HS recruit who is 50/50 type to make it to campus possibly decommitting. He didn't mention name of who it was but talked about last minute returners at same position and also if the guy would be a DES then he may look to decommit and look somewhere else. CJ Weinstein fits both of those.

Agreed. The last thing to come back after TJ is command of pitches. Especially secondary pitches.

I don't think Paz leaving is a huge deal for the future of LSU, but I absolutely would love for him to be with LSU the next 2 years than him go somewhere else. Obviously caught Jay off guard since Jay has specifically mentioned him in multiple interviews about someone who will be a future starter. Bet he was meaning that as a future starter for another team.

MLB prospect rankings and the way teams draft still factor in projectability. Just can't teach mid 90s from the left side. A lot of teams will think they have the right guys in the minors to fix his issues.

His comparison to Dardar wasn’t with play style or stats, it was strictly just saying that he can’t stay healthy and always has some type of nagging injury that keeps him from his full potential.

Both catchers improved by a pretty wide margin from start to end of this season. I understand it is frustrating but both guys are young and it is really hard to come from high school where the pitching isn't nearly as hard to catch as in college. Also, some of the pitchers didn't have a clue where the ball was going when it left their hand. That doesn't help out catcher. Hopefully pitcher development and a better pitching staff who can attack the strike zone will help the catchers do their job even better next season.

I don't think anyone knows the true answer or close guess to any of this because we don't have the info that Jay does as far as how many are considered DSA guys.

Last season I think they started with 39-40 and the spring roster ended up with 38. Hard for me to believe they will want to go more than the 38 when the goal is to be at 34 in the next year or 2.

The greatest part about having Park locked in coming here and playing at 3rd is, god forbid Milam get hurt, you still have an easy fix to that problem.

Ruckert has a .500 OBP in the summer league him and Patrick are playing in right now. Both hitting over .300 in over 30 PA so far. I would like to see a little more pop from both of them. Only 1 XBH each so far in 24-26 ABs for each of them.

Agree.

Thompson actually was having some success in scrimmages 2024 fall and 2025 spring too. Just threw 86-88 so I guess they didn't give him as much of a shot as some other guys.