Geaux247 Board

The hitting problems are not unique to this season. We've had trouble for a number of years hitting the ball relative to the talent on the team. As I said above, Javi is one of the best recruiters in the country, but is not a great hitting coach. He's not a seasoned hitting coach. He's a 31 year old guy who played a few years of minor league ball and is basically learning how to be a hitting coach on the job at LSU (Does anyone remember is constant awful base running judgment as 3B coach a few years ago before PM finally removed him as 3B coach?). He may be a Turtle Thomas in 10 or 15 years, but he's not close to being there now. The problem is that I don't know if you can get a more quality hitting coach and keep the same level of recruiter.

Yea our baserunning was awful when Javi was at 3rd... I'd like to see a stat for how many runners we had thrown out at the plate during his time as 3rd base caoch... but as far as him being a hitting coach and recruiter, I think I'd take the hitting coach over a recruiter. I mean LSU baseball is a premiere name brand in college baseball, and I dont think we need a Frank Wilson type of recruiter on the baseball staff. I mean we would onviously need to replace Javi with someone who could do a little recruiting, but I think player development is more important than recruiting prowess in college baseball, especially at a place like LSU.