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Posted on 2/16/26 at 11:32 am to
Posted by tigerfoot
Alexandria
Member since Sep 2006
61104 posts
Posted on 2/16/26 at 11:32 am to
Serna is special. My kid played a couple age groups behind him, we were walking by a field he was playing on, he hit a ball that may have joined the satellites. He was prob 14? This ball went every bit of 400 feet. I think they were swinging bbcor as well. He gets your attention.
Posted by Blue Jay Friend
Often Imitated - Never Duplicated
Member since Feb 2026
147 posts
Posted on 2/16/26 at 11:36 am to
quote:

The fastest in the NCAA is 119.5 mph
For a freshman 118 is just unfathomable. That young man is going to be special.

I thought his plate approach was very mature for a freshman. He looks polished already.

Lot's of upside it would seem.

Posted by Chad504boy
4 posts
Member since Feb 2005
177120 posts
Posted on 2/16/26 at 11:37 am to
if serna was doing a bat bros video, he would say off the hands just a bit.
Posted by lsu2006
BR
Member since Feb 2004
40114 posts
Posted on 2/16/26 at 12:33 pm to
Feel like Arrambide absolutely smoked every ball he made contact with this weekend. We got some hitters.
Posted by goodgrin
Atlanta, GA
Member since Nov 2003
6994 posts
Posted on 2/16/26 at 12:43 pm to
You never watched Jared Jones bat before?
Posted by Buga
Member since Dec 2013
1629 posts
Posted on 2/16/26 at 12:52 pm to
quote:

Serna is special.
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He already looks like a big leaguer. He'll be at LSU for three years, too.
Posted by GumboPot
Member since Mar 2009
139805 posts
Posted on 2/16/26 at 1:14 pm to
quote:

118 mph


Is that a typo?
Posted by Tigerfan1274
Member since May 2019
4509 posts
Posted on 2/16/26 at 1:28 pm to
quote:

BBCOR bats are getting hotter every year but that’s still incredibly hot.


Yup. We start seeing too many exit velos in that range, they will scale the bats back once again.
Posted by friendlyobservation
Member since Mar 2024
4458 posts
Posted on 2/16/26 at 1:30 pm to
Mother of god that's some crazy exit speed for someone that young. Hell, it's crazy for a 27-year-old in their prime. This guy is going to kill people this season. Defenses better pucker up.
Posted by IM_4_LSU
Savannah, GA
Member since Mar 2014
13105 posts
Posted on 2/16/26 at 1:50 pm to
118 is pretty damn impressive.
Posted by tirebiter
7K R&G chile land aka SF
Member since Oct 2006
10806 posts
Posted on 2/16/26 at 1:56 pm to
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Mother of god that's some crazy exit speed for someone that young.


That dude is put together, most year 1 guys at that weight look nothing like Serna.
Posted by thumperpait
Member since Nov 2005
3754 posts
Posted on 2/16/26 at 1:56 pm to
Surprised yorke isn't on the list. His bat was smoking.
Posted by WigSplitta22
The Bottom
Member since Apr 2014
2350 posts
Posted on 2/16/26 at 2:06 pm to
John Pearson takes some mean hacks too
Posted by Jay Quest
Once removed from Massachusetts
Member since Nov 2009
10698 posts
Posted on 2/16/26 at 3:23 pm to
No wonder LSU coaches are 50 feet behind the coaching boxes down the lines.
Posted by MorbidTheClown
Baton Rouge
Member since Jan 2015
74718 posts
Posted on 2/16/26 at 3:24 pm to
quote:

Not sure I’ve seen 118 mph exit speed


can you see a baseball at 118 mph?
Posted by Yeti_Chaser
Member since Nov 2017
12118 posts
Posted on 2/16/26 at 3:30 pm to
Gonna be such a luxury if he can hold his own behind the plate once per weekend. Keeping him and and Arrambide fresh throughout the year should really help them both offensively. You could see how big of a difference it made last year for Hernandez's bat once Arrambide started catching on saturdays
This post was edited on 2/16/26 at 3:31 pm
Posted by TigahTeeth
Georgia
Member since Feb 2016
6320 posts
Posted on 2/16/26 at 3:33 pm to
Incredible! They didn’t have the technology for that in the 90’s, but that’s Frank Thomas level hitting!
Posted by LSUMANINVA
West Virginia
Member since Sep 2004
9218 posts
Posted on 2/16/26 at 3:55 pm to
You really have to be on your game to see it.
Posted by Wadey
Member since Sep 2020
2091 posts
Posted on 2/16/26 at 4:01 pm to
I think we are going to have no trouble with the long ball looking at our team.
Posted by LSUMike1
LSU, Baton Rouge, LA, USA, Sol III
Member since Jan 2009
997 posts
Posted on 2/16/26 at 4:10 pm to
remember hunter pence?… he hit baseballs so hard… third basemen always played deep, off the dirt/plexi-grass/grass infield… and every single time he made contact, everybody could hear it… seems like half the time, the baseball was already through the infield before the bat finished swinging…
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