Been on vacation this past week but followed everything.

Couple of thoughts:

How does rotation work out next year? To me, Dom almost feels like odd man out with the way his stuff backed up this past year and the emergence of the two lefty freshman. His stuff plays better out of the pen IMO without a true third pitch. Elliot is also a loyal dude with his returning guys so I wouldn't be shocked to see him stay in the rotation. Either way this is a good problem to have now with at least five-six guys who can potentially start.

Head making it to campus is big. I read some reports of concern about teams not thinking he would grow into more power and if he did fill out not more not being able to stay in center. Now he has a couple of years to prove that.

I was kind of worried a team might take a chance on Thompson late but glad that did not happen either.

Add another MIF and this is a deep team. Will be interesting to see how things shake out in the fall.

Sam Highfill To Philadelphia Phillies

The Mayor Philly

Congrats to @samhighfill11 for signing with the @Phillies!

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— #Pack9 ⚾️ (@NCStateBaseball) July 21, 2024

The #Mets signed 4th rounder Eli Serrano for $697,500. Slot value for the 111th pick is $656,400.

— Carlos Collazo (@CarlosACollazo) July 22, 2024

Nice lil chunk of change for Eli!

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Maybe he would have transferred anyway but why the hell that dude wasn't playing 3B for us is a complete mystery.

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Not really. He had 8 errors in 21 games in the field for us. That's abysmal. We tried him at 3B and at 1B. That was on a team that already struggled in the field and defense cost us games.

Good thing there is a spot in the lineup where you can have an amazing hitter hit in every game and don't have to worry about his defense costing you and that's exactly where he played the majority of the season.

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matracey said:

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StateFan2001 said:

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DH

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Maybe he would have transferred anyway but why the hell that dude wasn't playing 3B for us is a complete mystery.

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Not really. He had 8 errors in 21 games in the field for us. That's abysmal. We tried him at 3B and at 1B. That was on a team that already struggled in the field and defense cost us games.

Good thing there is a spot in the lineup where you can have an amazing hitter hit in every game and don't have to worry about his defense costing you and that's exactly where he played the majority of the season.

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He did just fine playing 3B at National Champ LSU. Let's not forget the dude playing on the left side over him wasn't exactly a defensive wizard.

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No he didn't. He had a .859 fielding % when LSU won the title last year. He was MUCH better this year, but lets not act like he was "fine", especially a season ago. If memory serves me right, that was the worst fielding percentage by a regular IF in the SEC last year.

Also, I don't dislike White like a lot of our fans do, he was so fun to watch in the box. But, facts are facts. He had a LOT of growth needed in the field. Good for him for having a nice year defensively this year

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matracey said:

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StateFan2001 said:

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DH

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Maybe he would have transferred anyway but why the hell that dude wasn't playing 3B for us is a complete mystery.

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Not really. He had 8 errors in 21 games in the field for us. That's abysmal. We tried him at 3B and at 1B. That was on a team that already struggled in the field and defense cost us games.

Good thing there is a spot in the lineup where you can have an amazing hitter hit in every game and don't have to worry about his defense costing you and that's exactly where he played the majority of the season.

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He did just fine playing 3B at National Champ LSU. Let's not forget the dude playing on the left side over him wasn't exactly a defensive wizard.

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No he didn't do just fine. He was actually way worse playing the field at LSU. They just had the luxury of being able to absorb a terrible defender because they were loaded with talent at almost every other position. State didn't have that luxury.

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He hurt his shoulder diving for a ball at third. Missed a game or two. I don't remember him playing the field after that.

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Yeah this too. Goes to my previous post State couldn't afford for him to get hurt again playing the field because his bat was too valuable.

For something that happened so recently ago, the revisionist history on White is wild. Five more years and the story will be we ran off a gold glove third baseman. He stunk in the field, got hurt, and we played him in the best position for us to win games that year. Which is the goal, not to bend to the will of players families. He would've been welcomed back and I'm sure we would've done everything possible to play him in the field and improve him in that area, but he chose to bounce.

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matracey said:

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StateFan2001 said:

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DH

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Maybe he would have transferred anyway but why the hell that dude wasn't playing 3B for us is a complete mystery.

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Not really. He had 8 errors in 21 games in the field for us. That's abysmal. We tried him at 3B and at 1B. That was on a team that already struggled in the field and defense cost us games.

Good thing there is a spot in the lineup where you can have an amazing hitter hit in every game and don't have to worry about his defense costing you and that's exactly where he played the majority of the season.

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He did just fine playing 3B at National Champ LSU. Let's not forget the dude playing on the left side over him wasn't exactly a defensive wizard.

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No he didn't. He had a .859 fielding % when LSU won the title last year. He was MUCH better this year, but lets not act like he was "fine", especially a season ago. If memory serves me right, that was the worst fielding percentage by a regular IF in the SEC last year.

Also, I don't dislike White like a lot of our fans do, he was so fun to watch in the box. But, facts are facts. He had a LOT of growth needed in the field. Good for him for having a nice year defensively this year

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Interesting that LsU let him grow but we weren't willing to do so. I would take a few extra errors for an elite bat like TW had. Not a regular dude.

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When you have 2-3 other bats in the lineup equal to TW's and then also roll out the number one overall pitcher throwing 100mph into the 9th once a weekend...you have that luxury. And to top it off I assume we were willing to do so...our bag wasn't the size of the one in Baton Rouge or even close for that matter.

StateFan2001 said:

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matracey said:

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StateFan2001 said:

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FLWolf said:

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DH

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Maybe he would have transferred anyway but why the hell that dude wasn't playing 3B for us is a complete mystery.

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Not really. He had 8 errors in 21 games in the field for us. That's abysmal. We tried him at 3B and at 1B. That was on a team that already struggled in the field and defense cost us games.

Good thing there is a spot in the lineup where you can have an amazing hitter hit in every game and don't have to worry about his defense costing you and that's exactly where he played the majority of the season.

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He did just fine playing 3B at National Champ LSU. Let's not forget the dude playing on the left side over him wasn't exactly a defensive wizard.

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No he didn't. He had a .859 fielding % when LSU won the title last year. He was MUCH better this year, but lets not act like he was "fine", especially a season ago. If memory serves me right, that was the worst fielding percentage by a regular IF in the SEC last year.

Also, I don't dislike White like a lot of our fans do, he was so fun to watch in the box. But, facts are facts. He had a LOT of growth needed in the field. Good for him for having a nice year defensively this year

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Interesting that LsU let him grow but we weren't willing to do so. I would take a few extra errors for an elite bat like TW had. Not a regular dude.

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We were willing to do so. He just didn't want to be here.

Keep trying tho.

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StateFan2001 said:

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matracey said:

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StateFan2001 said:

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FLWolf said:

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DH

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Maybe he would have transferred anyway but why the hell that dude wasn't playing 3B for us is a complete mystery.

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Not really. He had 8 errors in 21 games in the field for us. That's abysmal. We tried him at 3B and at 1B. That was on a team that already struggled in the field and defense cost us games.

Good thing there is a spot in the lineup where you can have an amazing hitter hit in every game and don't have to worry about his defense costing you and that's exactly where he played the majority of the season.

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He did just fine playing 3B at National Champ LSU. Let's not forget the dude playing on the left side over him wasn't exactly a defensive wizard.

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No he didn't. He had a .859 fielding % when LSU won the title last year. He was MUCH better this year, but lets not act like he was "fine", especially a season ago. If memory serves me right, that was the worst fielding percentage by a regular IF in the SEC last year.

Also, I don't dislike White like a lot of our fans do, he was so fun to watch in the box. But, facts are facts. He had a LOT of growth needed in the field. Good for him for having a nice year defensively this year

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Interesting that LsU let him grow but we weren't willing to do so. I would take a few extra errors for an elite bat like TW had. Not a regular dude.

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When you have 2-3 other bats in the lineup equal to TW's and then also roll out the number one overall pitcher throwing 100mph into the 9th once a weekend...you have that luxury. And to top it off I assume we were willing to do so...our bag wasn't the size of the one in Baton Rouge or even close for that matter.

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Jay Johnson doesn't care about defense. He had Jacob Berry at 3rd the year prior to Tommy and he could barely play dead over there but could tear the cover off the ball (sound familiar).

LSU's #2 was drafted 38th overall last year and their #3 was selected in the 3rd round this year.

Dylan Crews was also the best player in college baseball last year.