BB Final: Louisiana 7, Tulane 6

[Rougarou]

Watch it boys... You guys can't possibly be "in the know" like that..

What amazes me is, people that trash posters that actually know what they are talking about because they themselves are either not students of the game, around the program enough, or don't have personnel relationships with guys who participate in this stuff day and and day out.

In other words people that think "I don't know this much so others can't possibly know".

We are the faceless buffoons. Maybe we can change our name to the "uninformed buffoons without faces".

[MetryCajun]

You are partially right. Even natural hitters as freshmen do not "eat up" college pitching. But Lott was scouted as a player with a good simple swing with plus bat speed with the potential to develop into a big power hitter. He was known as a guy who did not utilize pulling the ball much and worked the middle and right side of the field. Oh and a 6'4 frame with room to grow a lot. So, he really is and was projected more as a power hitter.

However, he did not behave as a power hitter as a freshman. If you actually watched his at bats and swing, he behaved more as a contact hitter trying to drive the ball up the middle and the other way. That can happen a lot to players trying to adjust to a higher level of pitching. They just start trying to make contact to survive until they adjust.

I agree with you on the amount of strikeouts he had last year and this year are not what you would expect to see with someone described by scouts as being a natural hitter. The menacing comment has nothing to do with hitters and just certain guys attitudes. There are guys with no hitting talent who are menacing, not natural hitters. But if you think pitchers don't fear Lott, you are wrong. They fear Moll too. If you watch how pitchers approach both guys, you can see it. And the fear just comes from the physical presence. That's why Moll got so many walks early in the season from getting so many sliders away off the plate. (Lott was swinging at them or they were getting called strikes).

But in purely evaluating his swing mechanics, he doesn't overload or overswing. He has a simple and relaxed approach. I don't mean that in a bad way. Many professional hitters have different philosophies on this. Many guys feel the less a guy has going on in his load and swing, the easier it is to make it through a season without a major slump because there is not as much to fine tune. Especially for a guy as long as Lott. The other side of the equation are guys like Harper, Trout, Donaldson, Odor, etc., who have big loads and big swings. But watching Lotts' swing mechanics, it looks more like a natural hitter than a power hitter. He naturally keeps his hands very inside the ball with a very level swing.

I think the problem with Todd came in this year where he maybe tried to be a type of player he wasn't quite ready to be, or was told to be a type of player he wasn't ready to be.

With someone like Lott, I think he needs volume. I think if you want to maximize your return on investment, you have to let him fail his way up. As a coach, that's hard to do when the entire team is striking out, not scoring runs, and Lott cannot get himself on the field because he is way down the chart with his defensive capabilities. So it is a challenge for Robe to justify putting him in to strike out three times early in the season when wins aren't coming. I think he also needs to be challenged. I have no knowledge of this but I would guess he doesn't get chewed out but mostly positive support and coach basically telling him either you perform or you don't play. I think Lott is the type of guy that needs a coach or leader get on him and tell him that the team is counting on him and he is too good to not be contributing more. That he was brought here to be a difference maker and it is not acceptable to not be producing. Almost like fussing at someone while lifting their confidence at the same time.

But if Lott would have gotten the ABs Windham, Stover, Cantrelle, etc. got this year, you would see him begin to reach that potential, I believe. If he were at the same level of a defender as those other guys, we wouldn't be having this discussion because he would be starting over Lafleur, who is producing just enough to stay in the lineup on guts and heart alone.

Excellent. Thanks

[Cajun90]

I love the fight in this team. At the same time, we left so many wins off of the board from blowing big leads (Arkansas State, Georgia State, Southern Miss, Little Rock, Texas State 2x). We are sitting at 36-17 if we hold on to those leads and win those games. That's always the frustrating part.

I never said it wasn't frustrating.... LOL

[CajunAmos]

Downloaded this a few weeks ago. We've had good improvement at the top of the lineup since then but the yearly progression is pretty grim.

[Dad04]

I personally think Lott ignored JT on Sunday when he hit the first pitch he saw for a homer. Now he's got 3 HR in 5 ABs. Keep ignoring him Todd!

Yeah, he's on a team, but it is Lotts career.

[Dad04]

He was an all star and I think led the Alaskan league in hitting this year. He’s going to the Cape this year. Questions will be answered soon about his talent level. Then we can go from there

The Cape only takes the best. Stevie Wonder can see he's got talent coming out his ears. Tons of recruiting at summer ball.

[Tell The Truth]

The only "dumbass" at usl is tony...morw hurt arms this week!!!

[wcd35]

Downloaded this a few weeks ago. We've had good improvement at the top of the lineup since then but the yearly progression is pretty grim.

These are the through 53 game numbers

[cajun_lannister]

These are the through 53 game numbers

Jay walker says you cant look at stats in baseball they don't tell you the story

However, people that know sports can see our strikeout, OBP & batting average numbers are very alarming

[CajunVic]

Jay walker says you cant look at stats in baseball they don't tell you the story

However, people that know sports can see our strikeout, OBP & batting average numbers are very alarming

Tell Jay Walker that when taking 5 yrs into consideration, the current year is the worst in 11 out of 25 stats and pitching is the worst in 5 (and we would have worst in 5 more if 13 were not in the picture) out of 19 stats, it pretty much tells a story.

[ULvictory]

.237 BA

Sheesh......

[Dad04]

.237 BA

Sheesh......

BA was stuck at .229 to .231 for weeks until last week. Slug and on base % are better metrics, but they suck too.

We will finish in the bottom 10% nationally for multiple offensive stats.