Jay Johnson still needs to hire new assistant coaches, but you can’t deny he’s worked the portal like crazy and seemingly has addressed the biggest holes on the roster. Little and Trebake seem like locks to be the Friday/Saturday guys in 2023. That shouldn’t be a problem for Little as he joins the Tiger pitching staff. He was Vandy’s midweek starter in 2021 and started two games in Omaha this year he pitched 38.1 innings, primarily out of the bullpen and seemed to have passed up by Vanderbilt’s super freshmen Carter Holton and Devin Futrell. He was a top-15 prospect in the class of 2021 and reclassified to join Vanderbilt in January of ‘21. All I know is that this spring in addition to #CrewsMissles leaving Alex Box we’ll have a whole lot of #TommyTanks too. My early guess is White fills Jacob Berry’s spot at third or maybe he DHs. I’m curious to see where White plays next season because I doubt you’d want to take Tre’ Morgan’s incredible defense off of first base. Please note how most of those homers went to the deepest part of the park. White set the NCAA record for home runs hit by a freshman with 27. White is an absolute force at the plate and fits in perfect with the Jay Johnson “hit homers first, ask questions later” approach. If all that wasn’t enough, LSU landed two massive commitments from the portal Friday in the form of NC State first baseman Tommy White (aka TOMMY TANKS) and Vanderbilt pitcher Christian Little. ![]() 300 with 15 doubles, five triples and seven home runs and, more importantly, only had eight errors over the course of 54 games. Expect Trebake to make it to Baton Rouge.Īfter Trebake, Baylor shortstop Jack Pineda announced he too would be coming to Baton Rouge. Now with that in mind Trebake is draft eligible and could go pro if he hears his name called early enough in July’s MLB Draft, but nothing I’ve seen mock draft wise leads me to believe that will happen. Of course there will be a big step up in competition going from Big East baseball to the SEC but for a team that needed starting pitching, Trebake could be, at worst, your Saturday starter if not your Friday ace. This year Trebake went 8-2 with a 2.81 ERA and 115 Ks versus only 33 walks in 93 innings pitched. It started about two weeks with former Creighton pitcher Dylan Trebake, who has been the Big East’s pitcher of the year each of the past two seasons. I’m not even sure if Gio traveled to Hattiesburg.Ĭranford provided some stability in the infield when Jacob Berry went down with a broken finger, but Cranford’s bat (.133 batting average) never matched his fielding Jacob Hasty was a mixed bag for LSU this season (3.55 ERA in 25.1 IP) and had just an awful outing against Southern Miss, getting pulled after just five pitches in what wound up being LSU’s final game of the season.īut while the transfer portal taketh, it also giveth and Jay Johnson has pulled in some of the biggest names in the portal and, most importantly, at positions of need. ![]() DiGiacomo’s got the most extensive resumé of that group but faded from the picture as the season progressed thanks to the emergence of Josh Pearson. With all due respect, none of these departures are particularly devastating to LSU’s hopes of returning to Omaha in 2023. * Holt has since signed with Oklahoma State ![]() Giovanni DiGiacomo (OF, redshirt junior).Since the 2022 season came to a close for the LSU baseball team, the transfer portal has been working overtime and shaping how the 2023 team will look in a big way.Īt the time of this writing eight players have put their names into the transfer portal.
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