re: Top pitching recruit LHP David Ramirez for Texas flips to Aggie.

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Son of former MLB player and 2017 WS Champion with the Houston Astros Cameron Maybin.

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Can’t believe that dude has a college age kid. I’m getting old!

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What is the story behind 64analytics? There rankings are wildly different than the list from Baseball America.

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**waring** lots of reading, but do so if you're interested in why 64 analytics is not the best ranking system, even though they have LSU at 1.

Their individual player rankings are based on an algorithm that takes into account various metrics like level of play (SEC v. SWAC), production, age, high school recruiting ranks, and MLB draft profile. It also sometimes values total production (70 IP) in the SEC vs actual production (sub 3 ERA, 7/1 K/BB) in a lower conference

IMO, they are very flawed. For example, here's some LSU related rankings that none of us could make sense of.

Brady Neal (ranked no. 13 overall). Brady Neal slashed .143/.294/.286 in coference play last year. Didn't do much better in '23. He started 12 conference games. But, he was ranked very high coming out of highschool and played in the SEC.

Daniel Dickinson (ranked no. 16 overall). Transfer from Utah Valley State. slashed .367/.469/.661 as a sophomore with 18 HR, 33 XBH, and was 32/37 on the basepaths. was not ranked high coming out of HS. Is now a projected top 15 pick.

Eddie Yamin (ranked no. 187 overall) is a transfer from Dayton. Yamin slashed .342/.429/.608 with 13 HR, 27 XBH as a sophomore. He was not ranked highly in high school.

Sam Dutton (ranked no. 35 overall). Dutton had an 8.22 ERA in conference. Career best ERA was in '22 at 5.12 with a career best 1.373 WHIP in '24. career 76/25 K/BB in 86.2 innings.

Two of LSU's newcomer pitchers have produced the following stat lines their first two years in college. One plays in a slightly better conference.

Pitcher A
Freshman - 2.02 ERA, 105/58 K/BB in 75.2 IP, 1.348 WHIP
Sophomore - 4.58 ERA, 106/76 K/BB in 70.2 IP, 1.627 WHIP

Pitcher B
Freshman - 4.34 ERA, 34/8 K/BB in 29.0 IP, 1.276 WHIP
Sophomore - 3.07 ERA, 85/24 K/BB in 82.0 IP, .963 WHIP

Pitcher A has slightly better stuff, but signifcantly worse command at this stage. Both hard throwing righties who will pump close to triple digits. Pitcher A is Jacob Mayers, a nicholls transfer ranked no. 12, and pitcher B is Anthony Eyanson, a UC San Diego transfer ranked no. 102, despite being on team USA this past summer. However, because Eyanson didn't have a draft profile in August, whereas Mayers did because of his freshman year, he gets a huge ranking boost.

Then just look at the top 3 players in the portal and tell me if this makes any sense.

Cade Fisher (No. 1 overall) is a guy who had a good freshman year, then an abysmal sophomore year with an ERA north of 7 and a WHIP of 1.618. Wasn't even walking a lot of people, just getting drilled at 10.2 H9

Zack Root (no. 3 overall) has a 3.56 ERA at ECU with a 76/21 K/BB and a 1.127 WHIP. The difference is Fischer was recruited highly out of HS and has a better MLB draft profile.

When school ends a new recruit normally the fan of that school starts a new topic with that news

Rangel visited A&M after Texas, but it didn’t sway him.

Only the first post mentioned “David Ramirez“

Correct. However, majority of the title is “ Top pitching recruit LHP ——— for Texas flips to Aggie”. I follow-up with new information that a Top pitching recruit Rangel visited A&M after Texas, but didn’t flip to Aggie.

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Why do these retards in austin

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You're replying to an LSU fan?

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have so much trouble learning not to troll the recruiting board?

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Didn't you just call someone a retard? Hypocritical much?

Correct, the chance probably as high as David Ramirez’s