Yeah, Skenes is from California so Oregon St. makes a lot of sense. LSU losing the usm pitcher to Florida might make them push harder and free up more money for him.
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Loftin got a high ceiling but his command needs work bad. Gets behind in counts to often. Not a knock on him because he's a young power guy and they tend to be that way, but I don't know if he's gonna be an sec rotation guy next spring. I hope he turns into the next Eric Dubose though and like I said high high ceiling. Tapper is a more polished pitcher at this point and commands 3 pitches well but he doesn't have near the ceiling as Loftin
Loftin definitely has the potential to be a stud and I hope he turns into one by the spring. His command problems are a concern to me but I believe before he leaves here he'll be a first rounder. I see him being the midweek guy next year but I hope you're right and he turns into an sec rotation guy instead.
We have a fallback plan if Skenes does not work out. We won?t be left hanging, ala Moseley.
We need Holcombe to take a rotation spot even if it's midweek. We've had too many high end JUCO's never pan out.
Dakota Jordan is baseball only.
I don't have any expectations for Clijinte or Loftin as of now. I'm glad to have both and they might be in the rotation but they also may be guys that we pitch midweek against JSU. They'll definitely be rotation guys in the future. Clijinte is no where near JT Ginn territory.
As far as instant impact? Probably Highfill and Jordan. But I also don't think Lemonis is completely relying on them.
We're about to have a big portal weekend coming up. I'm not too worried about Skenes because I think we're going to make sure we fill our holes and then if he chooses us then that's gravy on top of everything else.
I watched him pitch against nwr in state championship and they hammered him because he kept falling behind in the counts. Saw him a couple of times and
he did same thing but he was facing inferior teams and could overcome it. He couldn't against nwr. But he does have a very high ceiling the stuff is definitely there, just has to harness it.
May have been trying to do too much too trying to impress scouts. Pitchers that try to strike out everyone tend to get behind in the count. Pitching is just so counterintuitive like that. Best high school pitcher out of Mississippi I ever saw was Kirk Presley probably followed by Chris Stratton.
#34 overall recruit, that is a number range MSU has very few players in. Ginn was a 20-something. Hoglund was 40-something. Cole Wilcox was awesome at UGA when not injured. Guys in that range are often 1st or 2nd in their last draft. A few guys are busts like Derek Diamond, still drafted in a single-digit round.
The big portal weekend seemed to be overhyped by the 247 guys. We had one transfer on campus yesterday and might add another today.
But baseball recruiting is more tight lipped than other sports, so maybe there's more