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jacksajester may be the worst poster of all time after seeing some of these.
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I think this is probably correct. I have no inside info but Yamin was dressed for every postseason game and participated in team activities much like Guidry and Paul were.
If you look at his instagram posts you’d think he was an every day player…he’s Super positive towards his teammates and all the guys interact with his posts and vice versa
He was the first guy out of the dugout at the end of every single game, still wearing shin guards. shite, he was the one who tackled Shores after the final out :lol:

To have a guy who acts like that, while also (seemingly) being talented, is huge. Definitely gotta welcome him back if he wants to compete as the no. 2 with Serna behind Arrambide. Jay has played multiple catchers every year he's been here. Outside of this post season run, and Travinski's insane hot streak at the end of '23, Jay rarely put a guy out there 3 games in a row.

re: Baseball question

Posted by PP7 for heisman on 6/23/25 at 7:34 pm
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Everyone but Young and Moss. Young 1st round. Moss late 2nd.

This was true a year ago.

There's about 8 more guys that are up for debate now. Moss has fallen off of pretty much every top 100, behind about 6 other signees, which is great for LSU.
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He didn’t play a whole lot, I think that could be cause,
Unfortunately, if you step foot on the baseball field (as opposed to football at 4 games, and the attempt for basketball at 10 games) your eligibility clock runs.

So I think he's out of luck as far as D1 ball goes.

Still, he had one of the biggest at bats of the season, and I will forever be grateful that I got to attend that game and see him almost take Nate Snead's dumb head off of his shoulders.
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Back on the 2026 roster topic, what about Bec Same boat as Reaves?

Pretty sure Beck would need a 5th year waiver, which I'm not sure he has cause for.
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I avoid the rant at all costs. I’d do it if others wanted it done or if this isn’t the right place for speculating on 2026. But literally this it the only thread I check on TD. The rant always devolves into name calling and squabbling.

I totally get that, and this is fine for a 2026 speculation. For sure don't need you running multiple hot boards on multiple threads lol.
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Depending on what we do in the portal I could see Reaves leaving (we are on a number of MIF)

Same, and I think he'll be successful wherever he is next year. He's got some real offensive potential.
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Noot will have a decision to make but he may get drafted high enough. Would love to see him back.

He showed at times this year why he was ranked so high coming out of high school. I'd love him back, but I don't know that he comes back to throw out of the bullpen, which feels like the most likely outcome.
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I think Yamin is back - I think it was likely agreed upon before year he would RS.

Would love for him to spell Bide at catcher once a weekend and in the midweeks. He had great numbers as a sophomore at Dayton.
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I think and hope Guidry and Cowan are both back.

These would be massive. You get a Sunday Starter and a huge bullpen piece. Not sure if Jay sees Guidry as a closer next year, given that he favors the big arm there. Would love it if we were somehow able to always have Rizy/Guidry available in the backend. Need someone like Schmidt/Sheerin to step up (or get a transfer) and log starter innings in order for that to become a reality though.
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The little used bullpen arms I think could transfer: Primeaux may want to be utilized more than just as a LOOGY. Benge, Ware and Fontenot lost trust and that’s hard to get back but all showed flashes.
Feel like Ware has the highest upside here by far. He was elite for 3 weeks, then fell apart.
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Stanfield could come back. Larson hopefully comes back as 2026 version of Frey, but could also see him leaving like Kling and Kuch to get guaranteed playing time.

If Stanfield comes back, Larson is almost in the exact same spot as this year unfortunately. I think between the incoming guys and Pearson, it'll be tough for him to lock something down. Hope he stays, but he very well could end up at Kansas.
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Y’all are misunderstanding that video. He said he has a zoom call with a player tonight. Then he immediately likened the scenario to one from 2023 as almost a preemptive message to this new meeting.

Are you sure? I'll take your word for it, as I didn't watch the entire interview, but it sure seemed like he was talking about a kid from this week.

Either way, whoever the kid was, he made a mistake.
I think it was Carson Bailey, the Baylor transfer who committed to A&m Saturday night/Sunday morning.
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By damnstrongfan
Over who? Who do you want benched?

If you've been watching we have several to choose from.
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By LSUNeil
Stanfield. I want him benched and put Pearson in left and curiel in center
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By CaroTiger
I’m sorry but at this point Jones is a liability at the plate. Too many strikeouts.

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By LSUag88. 1-10 how confident are you that we make it to Omaha
3. The secret to keeping our hitters at bay is out there now and it’s devastating.
Really there's like 10 posts in that thread alone How confident are you that we make it to Omaha
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By GA Tiger
Wait until they score 2 runs to make a pitching change. “J” is so in over his head it aint funny.
You can really go through his posts and he's panicking every day. He was complaining about Jay during the Arkansas game, immediately after the botched double play.
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By Jack Daniel
When USCe wins 2/3 this weekend and LSU doesn’t host a super, Maybe y’all will then see Jay Orgeron for what he is. He lucked up with Skenes or he would have been 0-4 on hosting a super while at LSU
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By Jack Daniel
Alex Box will be available for parties Super Regional weekend. 75% of Jay Johnson’s tenure Alex Box will be empty and available weekend of Supers.
This where i parked my car. I can do an entire thread on Burreauxxx posts.
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The King of Whiff? No real team is scared of Jones. He made a lucky swing. Happens. That’s Jay Ball. Win or die by homers. He dies plenty in big games.
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The King of Whiff? No real team is scared of Jones. He made a lucky swing. Happens. That’s Jay Ball. Win or die by homers. He dies plenty in big games.
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It’s gonna be fun to see these same posters digging Jay the day he leaves LSU

I need to start the bookmarks. It was one of my favorite things about tRant during the Orgeron days. The staunch defenders who quickly turned into haters when he was fired lolll
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Tony > Jay

Jay is the Les Miles which is solid

Just too bad he will have to face Saban for a decade
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If anyone’s being honest about this subject, it’s been clear that the last two years the offense has been built around the HR.

If LSU doesn’t slug — we don’t win. Period.

The bat-to-ball skills just aren’t there. We have no offense in the sense of manufacturing runs. Not good at moving runners, playing smart situationally, putting hits together, calling plays successfully, etc. We live and die by the HR.

It’s just not good baseball. If Jay doesn’t have far and away the best roster then it has been proven it doesn’t work.
This is the tip of the iceberg.

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SIAP, but this has to be about Bailey, right? He went 1.2 IP, 2H, 5BB, and 2ER in his cape debut last week.
Does anyone want to start a thread (that we can sticky) on the rant of a running roster tracker with incoming/outgoing guys? I appreciate the work in this thread, and 99% of the time I like to keep it here, but I wouldn't mind increased engagement it would get on the rant.

That, and winning a title usually keeps the retards at bay.

I understand it's a commitment to start and maintain, which is the reason I'm not doing it. :lol: Would greatly appreciate the effort if someone is willing to put it in.

For the sake of discussion, I'll put who I believe returns:

1. Arrambide
2. Milam
3. Reaves (could go)
4. Curiel
5. Brown
6. Guidry (could go)
7. Schmidt
8. Evans
9. Cowan (could go, 2nd best odds to go)
10 Noot (could go)
11. Williams
12. Yamin (could go)
13. Mayers (could, and probably will go)
14. Benge (could go)
15. Sheerin
16. Pearson
17. Rizy
18. Fontenot (could go)
19. Ware
20. Primeaux (could go)
21. Larson

I think Mayers is the only one on that list that likely leaves. I don't like speculating on who will transfer out, but that's likely going to be a natural part of this conversation. I have the following leaving for pro baseball/graduation

1. Stanny
2. Braswell
3. Pearson
4. Dickinson
5. Frey
6. Jones
7. Hernandez
8. Anderson
9. Eyanson
10. Shores

That's, at minimum, 2 SP, 1 high leverage BP, starting CF, 3B, 2B, 1B, C, DH, and rotational outfielder.

ETA: WJP, love your work :lol: just want something more LSU roster specific. Don't want to undervalue what you bring.
Motion is very similar to Casan Evans, and the arm angle and size is very similar to Skenes.

I will be expecting a combination of Casan Evans and Paul Skenes in '26. Anything less is unacceptable.
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Evans is a lock but Cooper Williams, Schmidt, Mayers are definitely in contention for Weekend slots next season
You can add Sheerin to that list as well. Not even counting Cowan, who I think could return.

If Cowan's back - he's your Sunday guy at worst.

ETA: Man, looking at it from a further view point, we could feasibily have this staff next year, before any recruits or transfers make their decisions (no particular order)

1. Evans
2. Schmidt
3. Rizy
4. Williams
5. Sheerin
6. Guidry
7. Mayers
8. Cowan
9. Noot
10. Fontenot
11. Primeaux

Now - Cowan, Guidry, Mayers, and Noot could go, but I think you get two of those back.

I think this is why we've slow played pitching in the portal. A ton of decisions have to be made between now and the draft. If you get like moderate development out of 2 of the freshman, you have a better staff in '26 than you did in '25.
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Morrison actually pitched great until that meltdown inning. That one was really weird. Don't know what happened there it was almost like the audio thing he was complaining about ate him up that inning because his pitch sequence was weird and LSU was on the pitches. He kinda pooped his pants that inning. Before that he was rolling.

Morrison got barreled up at least once every single inning lol. We were right on him, and the flood gates opened once the barrels stopped finding gloves.
Stanny being one of the 3 to sit at the podium following the title makes his retarded posts all year that much sweeter.

Ole pop up Stanfield at it again, hitting missiles to knock in 2 in the CWS finals.
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Jack Daniel
He (and he's not alone) has a full season of bitching in his post history, where he constantly says this team is fricked and won't do this and won't do that, then still goes on the SEC rant and talks shite to other teams' fans.

I'll never understand that.
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The guy that tore is ACL is a stud, Sherrin? Bet he gets into that weekend rotation.

Yes. I don't believe all of their games are streamed, and the most recent outing was radio only from what I saw.

He had a rocky first appearance, but then pitched very well in his second.

1st game he went 3 IP, 2H, 4K, 1BB, 1 HR, 2 ER

2nd game he went 2.1 IP, 0H, 0BB, 0R, 4K

For the season - 5.1 IP, 3.38 ERA, 8K, 1BB, .563 WHIP.

More, from the same thread, from Burreauxxx
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How come Jay can't find a DH on a roster loaded with #1 recruiting classes and a ton of NIL money spent on transfers
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Sounds like the same sitch with Dickenson and Milam to me That SS had every bit as good of a series at the plate as Milam did, which was a guy tRant told me was a "star" last summer
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With the way Tony recruits, they don't need him

The top 5-6 in their batting order is the best in the country. Real next level talent

Jay has Pearson & Frey batting cleanup lolll
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It's wild we have a hard time finding a DH on this team
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Oof

Curiel can be great

So can a couple pitchers, maybe

Otherwise, the terms “great”, “stars” etc get thrown around way too much by fan boys
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Jay signs numbers

Tennessee gets the elite guys like Kilen/Doyle these days
Both of their ^^^ former teams made the CWS. They sat at home. Except Doyle. He got a chance to see LSU win in person, as he came in not first place for the golden spikes.
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If anyone’s being honest about this subject, it’s been clear that the last two years the offense has been built around the HR.

If LSU doesn’t slug — we don’t win. Period.

The bat-to-ball skills just aren’t there. We have no offense in the sense of manufacturing runs. Not good at moving runners, playing smart situationally, putting hits together, calling plays successfully, etc. We live and die by the HR.

It’s just not good baseball. If Jay doesn’t have far and away the best roster then it has been proven it doesn’t work.
LSU went 5-0 in Omaha with a grand total of 2 home runs.
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We only score on HRs

JAY BALL
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Tony > Jay

Jay is the Les Miles which is solid

Just too bad he will have to face Saban for a decade
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It’s gonna be fun to see these same posters digging Jay the day he leaves LSU

I need to start the bookmarks. It was one of my favorite things about tRant during the Orgeron days. The staunch defenders who quickly turned into haters when he was fired lolll
Wonder how the bookmarks are going.
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My point is that college baseball has progressively become more offensive the last 5-10 years. That’s just the truth.

But how many times has the elevated offensive data translated into LSU hosting regionals or making super regionals, Sammy?

So, is the answer is that Jay’s falling short then that tells me his offenses clearly aren’t good enough. And/or his defenses/pitching ain’t good