re: Baseball Preview 2024 Edition (Feb 10th - Pro Prospects & SEC Predictions)

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I try to rank the players on LSU’s team as they compare to average college athletes every year, because the goal of this thread is focused towards the collegiate season and not the MLB draft.

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The scale of talent at the college level is insanely large. If you included NAIA, Juco, D2…. Everyone on LSU’s team is near 80. But let’s say you just did D1… 80 should still be too rare to give a few every year.

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I just found the game codes for the LSU games in Minute Maid (and about 50 other games). We will be able to view the statcast data in real time for the games played in MLB and many in MILB parks through Baseball Savant.

I'll post links in the game threads.

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Awesome. Thanks in advance Project!

Has Neal seen any time at 2B this spring? If Pearson or a corner OF slot struggles do we see Neal get time at 2B?

I have not seen Neal at 2nd this spring in the scrimmages I've been to.

Koki Riley actually wrote an article about Neal this morning, I apologize for anyone it's behind a paywall.

LINK

To summarize it basically says he's working to improve his body to be ready to play "anywhere he's needed" but the story doesn't expand on how they actually make that happen.

Only fricking Ell and Broski come in Adam’s thread year after year and fricking shite on it. We enjoy Adam’s previews every season. Ell, you’re a gigantic piece of shite and your role is unwanted and fricking tiresome. I would say 90 percent of the board fricking hates you…and deservingly so.

My take is it's mainly for the uninformed readers and football fans of tRant. Most of your true baseball fans understand a lot of the team and players positive and negative attributes. It's nice for them that Adam highlights some of the freshman and new faces to the team that fans that don't follow as closely won't recognize.

I enjoy the read and discussion about his position evaluations but I'll be damned if we can ever seem to stay on topic with all the fricking flaming that goes on in these threads.

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WinnieTiger

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We can’t discuss his ratings? Isn’t that part of the topic? Why can this poster pop in out of nowhere attacking ell and then he gets banned for laughing it off? Who derailed the thread?

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Whoa. Slow ya roll hoss. I didn't say any of this bullshite you're accusing me of. I'm not taking sides either way for or against ell's or anyone else's flaming. You are reading more into my posts than what is there.

In fact I believe I'm the only poster so far that has posted some substantive discussion about Adam's 2nd base update installment today. You guys need to knock off the unnecessary bullshite and stay on topic IMO.

Doge out!

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Ell is banned now.

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Damn. Hate to hear anybody getting banned (except Magician2, Oweo, The Pirate Queer etc).

Not defending the ban at all, but ell had an opportunity to stay on topic or avoid this thread, but he chooses sometimes to do otherwise. Not necessarily blood on the other poster's hands IMO.

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Ell explained his position and the actual debate seemed to stop once it was shown that Adam is nowhere close to the standard. It was over.

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Still bitching and moaning about the assessment of Jones yesterday? Yall really need to turn the page. Everyone has an opportunity to throw their opinions out on here.

It makes for great discussion and builds anticipation and arguments that will likely be discussed the entire season IMO. But this only happens if we actually dissect the players' skills and not attack posters for their contributions to the discussion.