Rawls Named To Collegiate Baseball Players of the Week List

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Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns right-hander Cooper Rawls earned his first weekly award of the 2022 season when he was named on Monday to Collegiate Baseball's National Players of the Week list.

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[CajunGrad16]

He was named the collegiate baseball national player of the week.

[roarman]

WOW!

[CajunStros]

Nice!

[CajunMarineBBK]

On Scotts radio show Deggs said he could be national player of the week and it happened. Good job kid.

[Rainman66]

So Ruston fans will be saying they lost to the collegiate baseball national player of the week, hence their RPI should be better?

[CajunStros]

So Ruston fans will be saying they lost to the collegiate baseball national player of the week, hence their RPI should be better?

They’ll say we threw our ace in a mid week gam….

Wait never mind.

[Turbine]

He was named the collegiate baseball national player of the week.

Two wins in less than a week.

Well deserved

[Dad04]

I am still wondering why he was hidden from view until last week.

[CajunVic]

I am still wondering why he was hidden from view until last week.

That is just nuts . . . almost seems to be impossible with our early pitching woes . . .

[Rainman66]

I am still wondering why he was hidden from view until last week.

We will probably never know the real answer, but it appears he was in the doghouse with at least Deggs and maybe Seth. Now there are some that will claim that is was senseless and he should've been pitching more. Others will claim that it was just the right medicine he needed and look at how well he responded to hard coaching.

The real answer, like most things, is probably some where in between.

[LifeTimeCajun]

He was another one going thru an “arm stroke adjustment” according to what was said this morning. We have a bunch of those guys. That adjustment must come with a new pitching coach

[CajunStros]

We will probably never know the real answer, but it appears he was in the doghouse with at least Deggs and maybe Seth. Now there are some that will claim that is was senseless and he should've been pitching more. Others will claim that it was just the right medicine he needed and look at how well he responded to hard coaching.

The real answer, like most things, is probably some where in between.

Deggs told a story about a kid from when he was at TXA&M. He said that he told Rawls the same story recently. Anyway, The player had a wipeout pitch that he couldn’t throw for strikes initially. The kid and the coach got into a verbal skirmish early in the season and he didn’t pitch again that year. After some mechanical changes in his delivery, 2 years later he was the conference pitcher of the year as their closer.

You gotta wonder if something similar happened here and I’m not talking about changing his arm angle.

[CajunT]

He was another one going thru an “arm stroke adjustment” according to what was said this morning. We have a bunch of those guys. That adjustment must come with a new pitching coach

That would make the most sense as per an explanation why he wasn't pitching. It's too easy to dismiss it as another example of Degg's supposed incompetence, or discipline system.

[ManAboutTown]

Deggs told a story about a kid from when he was at TXA&M. He said that he told Rawls the same story recently. Anyway, The player had a wipeout pitch that he couldn’t throw for strikes initially. The kid and the coach got into a verbal skirmish early in the season and he didn’t pitch again that year. After some mechanical changes in his delivery, 2 years later he was the conference pitcher of the year as their closer.

You gotta wonder if something similar happened here and I’m not talking about changing his arm angle.

This is as close to the actual situation as anyone has gotten.