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notbilly
| Favorite team: | LSU  |
| Location: | alter |
| Biography: | still working on it |
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| Registered on: | 9/6/2015 |
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Only a few haven’t improved, but most of them haven’t actually regressed, either.
Pretty sure about 7 of the 10 have worse ERAs than before. Thats not a few.
Schmidt, Fontenot, Rizy had a better ERA than last year. And after tonight, Schmidt is only 0.59 better than last year.
Benge along with the others have a worse ERA.
While Cowan’s ERA is worse, I’d say he looks the same. His early struggles have skewed his numbers and he looks really good now.
Guidry has a really good year in 2024 with a 2.59 ERA. He’s at 6.59 right now. That’s not “pretty much the same”
Williams, Evans, and noot have all dropped off significantly.
Prmieaux is down. As you mentioned it’s been in a limited role this year. But if he’s not injured and can’t get on the field with this staff, then I don’t think you can out him in the “same” category.
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quote:quote:He openly admitted to this last night
#2 - he has entirely shite the bed on player evaluation
Did he address the amount of players who weren’t transfers and have not improved from last year? Bc the returning pitching staff is worse than they were a year ago. Are we blaming the portal guys for that?
This is more than a talent issue.
re: Jay has to get a whole hell of a lot better at evaluating catchers.
Posted by notbilly on 4/18/26 at 9:45 pm to LSUFanHouston
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Most of our problems are wild pitches, not passed balls
No. We certainly have pitchers that have control issues. But our catchers are missing balls that other catchers catch. That breeds a problem bc then your pitchers know it’s hard to throw some pitches bc they will result in passed balls. Our pitching staff last year knew that Hernandez wasn’t letting a perfect strike bounce out of his mitt to let someone score from third base. This staff has regressed. That is not debatable. The only part we can debate is how much of it is on the coaching of the pitchers and how much of it is related to the catchers not managing the staff the way a good catcher can.
re: So how does Jay fix it?
Posted by notbilly on 4/18/26 at 9:39 pm to Dannywanger19
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He goes back to the portal and tries again. Every transfer is a gamble.
The portal isn’t the only problem. Make a list of everyone on the team that was here last year and let me know how many of them are better.
Players need to be developed. Pitchers need to improve year over year. Most of our returning pitchers have actually regressed.
re: The entire lineup today was non portal from this year and still sucked
Posted by notbilly on 4/18/26 at 8:43 pm to Shiftyplus1
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It's weird seeing players with good batting averages get worse every year, when it should be the opposite.
People on this site keep blaming the portal busts. Go tell me how many pitchers we returned that have a better ERA this year than they did previously. I’ll give you a hint.. About 70% of them have a worse ERA than they had before this year
re: Stats SEC baseball games only
Posted by notbilly on 4/18/26 at 4:04 pm to easy money
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The average is ok, but how about the run production?
We are 5th in the sec in runs scored
re: Stats SEC baseball games only
Posted by notbilly on 4/18/26 at 10:59 am to vidtiger23
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Completely disagree. Several games we’ve should have had the lead early in games if it wasn’t our complete ineptitude on the offensive side. The game gets much easier with the lead and you’re not just chasing runs.
We are 13th in the SEC in ERA. We are last in defense. But the offense is middle of the pack: 5th in runs scored, 7th in batting average. The offense is not good enough to win Omaha. We know that. But to pretend that our pitching isn’t a huge issue is disingenuous.
Looks this up. 6 of the 9 returning pitchers from last year have worse ERAs than they did last year. 7 of 10 if you count Guidry. Is that bc of our offense?
Everyone can blame the transfers, but what about the players who are playing worse now than they did a year ago. It isn’t just 1-2 guys in a sophomore slump.
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2026 SEC games only
Hitting
6) LSU .261
Pitching
ERA 13) LSU 6.21
Fielding
16) LSU .965 Es 20
Everyone keeps harping on the offense. It's not great, but it's good enough to win more games than we have. Our defense and pitching are keeping us from being competitive in too many games.
re: Did J discuss his pitching decisions while being so candid?
Posted by notbilly on 4/18/26 at 9:35 am to VeryReauxna_ish
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He pointed the finger at Simpson for not making the play in the first for Evans not having enough gas in the 6th. He basically said those extra 9 to 10 pitches Evans had to make to get out of the inning effected him in the 5th and 6th. Although Evans struck the next batter out in 3 pitches after Simpson’s misplay.
I am a Jay defender. And he's the only man I want coaching this program. But he was wrong to keep Evans in the game as long as he did. The play by Simpson was not easy, and it only cost Evans THREE pitches and zero runs. Jay brought that up more than once in the press conference to throw Simpson under the bus on why Evans collapsed. Jay should have pulled him after 5 IP when he was around 95 pitches. No one else in the stadium thought it was a good idea to trot him out in the 6th, knocking on 100 pitches after giving up three runs in the 5th. The game got away from us there, and that was on the coaching.
re: Short Leash on Pitchers
Posted by notbilly on 4/18/26 at 8:42 am to GeauxTime9
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What’s the boards thoughts on Jay having such a short leash with the pitchers?
If it’s to save an arm for later in the weekend, sure. The problem is that Jay was the only person in the ballpark that thought Evan should come back out for one more inning when he was right at a 100 pitches. Obviously left him in too long. Jay has also lost a couple games this year leaving in Guidry too long. With one exception, Guidry usually doesn’t do well beyond 2 innings.
re: Hits to run ratio
Posted by notbilly on 4/18/26 at 8:36 am to cmjellybean
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Hits to run ratio
That ratio doesn’t account for walks, HBPs, passed balls, wild pitches, and errors.
re: Condo advice - Destin, Panama, etc
Posted by notbilly on 4/17/26 at 8:27 am to geauxpurple
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Seascape with the Whale’s Tail Bar and Grill on the beach.
Any downside to Seascape beside not being directly on the beach? I am liking what I see with this place.
re: Transfer Portal Killing Baseball & Softball
Posted by notbilly on 4/15/26 at 9:55 am to Tigergirl124
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bad on the mound, and comically awful at fielding.
Our fielding is worse than the stats show. The pitching is bad too. However, pitching looks worse than it is. We've had many routine plays that should have been made but scored as hits, and they result in earned runs. But if we had a good defense, the ERA would be lower.
re: Stats tell the story...
Posted by notbilly on 4/15/26 at 9:01 am to GetmorewithLes
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and a leader in Passed Balls. The two stats combined are astounding.
Yep. It's why I'd like to see Yamin catch more. I know it won't happen, but his catching against Tennessee was the only time I recall not being frustrated as hell watching our catchers.
In conference games, Serna is not batting well enough to justify his defense, in my opinion.
.260 ba
.333 obp
1 HR
16 Ks
4 BB
Yamin is comparable in batting (statistically, based on a smaller sample size). Arrambide is crushing it in SEC play, and his bat needs to stay in the lineup at DH.
re: Stats tell the story...
Posted by notbilly on 4/15/26 at 8:49 am to WylieTiger
In conference play, LSU is
7th Batting average
6th HRs (tied)
3rd Runs scored
5th Ks
4th BBs
5th in total bases
12th steals
10th HBP (tied)
Pitching
11th ERA
2nd strikeouts
14th in walks
10th hit batters
9th in HRs given up
16th in wild pitches
Fielding
16th passed balls
16th Errors
16th in Fld%
12th double plays
9th caught stealing (tied w/ 5 others)
All rankings are from best to worst. i.e., batting K's means having the 5th fewest. Wild Pitches means we have the most.
7th Batting average
6th HRs (tied)
3rd Runs scored
5th Ks
4th BBs
5th in total bases
12th steals
10th HBP (tied)
Pitching
11th ERA
2nd strikeouts
14th in walks
10th hit batters
9th in HRs given up
16th in wild pitches
Fielding
16th passed balls
16th Errors
16th in Fld%
12th double plays
9th caught stealing (tied w/ 5 others)
All rankings are from best to worst. i.e., batting K's means having the 5th fewest. Wild Pitches means we have the most.
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Ok, It's my fault (evidence submitted)
You son of a bitch.
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Hernandez was a Sr. last year and had started 144 games behind the plate before coming to LSU.
Hernandez started 144 games before coming to LSU, but that was mostly as a 1B and DH. He did play some catcher, but it certainly wasn't full-time.
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Korali
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I’ll stop trashing players when they stop playing like trash.
B/c you'll stop posting altogether at that point. You are one of the shitty posters who stay quiet when things are good. Then, when things take a turn for the worse, you jump from the shadows to bitch and moan. I'm sorry that someone hurt you when you were young. You deserved better. You should see a therapist and work through some of that.
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If you don’t want to see fans be critical of players/coaches, you shouldn’t be reading a sports message board. Especially right after that team gets swept.
Nothing wrong with criticism. I honestly don't mind it all from the posters that I see posting about baseball all year long. The hilarious thing is the casuals who haven't been part of any thread this season making a point to let everyone know how the season is over or they are done with the team or how they knew this was going to happen.
https://lsusports.net/tickets/football/info/
Link says April 30 is the deadline but I don't see an option to do it in my account.
Last year, I put in for my Bama away tix on 3/20/2025
Link says April 30 is the deadline but I don't see an option to do it in my account.
Last year, I put in for my Bama away tix on 3/20/2025
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