TigerLaw40

Yes. Milam played SS in some scrimmages last fall and spring and looked fine.

Kucherack also has looked good in summer league and is a great defender. Just doesn’t have the power to be a 3B like Jay wants.

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Paywall. Cliffs?

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Here you go:

Pitching -

- Hurd, Holman, & Jump are looking to be the weekend rotation, with Herring and Ackenhausen being mentioned as possibilities to start.
- Cam Johnson to be developed and likely a backend of games arm for now.
- Guidry will focus on pitching (end of games) again this season, but they will continue to develop him as a 2-way player, which could be used for situational purposes when rosters are reduced to 27 for SEC play.
- Loer, Woods, Herring, Ack, Little, Moffett, Primeaux, Dutton, & Bucknam look to be the primary bull pen arms in addition to the 2 listed above.
- Anderson could be a contributor in the pen as well.
- For those keeping count, that is a total of 12 bull pen arms mentioned in addition to the already strong starting rotation. That is stupid deep for college.

Lineup/Position -

- Confirmed the Pearson to 2B move and looks to be solid there.
- Neal will still be a primary catching option; but they will develop some options by having him work 4 other positions (2B, 3B, corner OF)
- Confirmed Brown is the front-runner for starting OF position, with Kling & Bingham as definite starters. H/e, he mentioned Frey, Ruddell, and Larson all will have opportunities to try and grab the position, especially if Brown struggles.
- Brown will remain a 2-way player & could still pitch some; but the focus this year will be as a position player & hitter.

Injuries/Roster (Redshirts) -

- White still on good pace for recovery and expected to be 100% by Opening Day. Currently hitting and throwing every other day. I suspect we will see him only on a limited basis for spring scrimmages.
- Hope to have Noot back by late March/early April. Pushing to have Shores back later in the season.
- Seo and Lape will receive medical RS's due to pre-existing injuries before arriving, which is an interesting statement given that Seo did begin the fall pitching in a scrimmage.
- Cooley, Dale, & Thompson will be redshirted.
- With those 5, that should get LSU to the 40 roster limit.

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ScubaTiger

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I didn’t realize you were going to Round Rock too. I’ll be there as well. What section will you be in?

Leah Vann said in response to this question on Twitter that she is being told it is “nothing serious”.

Looks like we are all good.

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So lunchboxes and ice chests are aloud?

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Yep. They don't have any LSU workers or security at these scrimmages. Maybe next weekend if they do something like a "Fan Day" then it might change things up a bit for that particular day; but all in all, most of the scrimmages have no rules and no one to really stop you with respect to what you bring in.

Of course, keep it somewhat conservative. We want to be appreciative of the fact that Jay is continuing to allow fans in the stadium to watch. So we don't want to do anything too obnoxious that would cause him or LSU to want to change that.

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Can’t imagine how wild Tennessee is going to be.

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Funny thing is that they had some TN accounts on Twitter yesterday trying to let TN fans know that LSU's individual game sales were happening today and for them to go and buy up all the tickets in order to "turn the stadium orange". :lol:

Why do y'all care if Kent Lowe retires or not?

Generally he is a background guy that fans have no interaction with or even know what he does, nor does his performance have some huge impact on the program in a positive or negative way. He's the media relations guy. He gets press conferences set up, handles media requests for coaches and players, disseminates info. for press releases, and keeps track of historical info. of the program. That's really all he does. Why do you need some youthful person in there to do that?

As for last night, he was a last minute fill in. It's not like that is his regular job function to do. I'm sure he knows he isn't great at it.

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Moneys velo looked down huh?

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Honestly that is something I didn’t pay a ton of attention to. I remember looking a few times on his FB and noticed around 91 or 92 it seems. But from what I vaguely recall, I feel like that’s what he was around more consistently in the fall too; but I wouldn’t swear to that.

Unless Wes can get him right and going, I feel like he’s only going to be good for maybe an inning of relief at most. Tends to look pretty good for 1 and then starts getting hit around after that.

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Does anyone know who Jones and Frey took deep?

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Jones was off of Money. Absolute laser shot.

Frey was off of Moffett. As I put on another board and to steal Jay’s phrase, it was “light tower power” on his. From the stands, ball looked like it arced as high as the light pole in LF and then came down almost right by the pole in the bleachers.

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So he’s fresh on Friday night. Instead of hitting and running bases for two games then pitching the 3rd

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Ding, ding, ding…we have a winner.

This, plus as has been mentioned, he is our ace and potentially one of the best pitchers in the country. He truly has the potential to supplant Crews as 1/1 for the draft. You don’t pitch that guy on Sundays in the SEC.