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Projecting LSU baseball’s batting order in 2023

The Tigers have a lot of options when it comes to filling out the lineup card.

When [autotag]Jay Johnson[/autotag] fills out a lineup card on Feb. 17 against Western Michigan, he will be like a kid in a candy store.

There are so many options at so many different positions. This team is so deep that it is unreal. With that being said, I am going to do my best to take a crack at making a possible opening-day lineup. If I can get three out of nine right, I will be happy with this list.

The three I am most confident in are [autotag]Tre Morgan[/autotag] batting leadoff, [autotag]Dylan Crews[/autotag] hitting third and [autotag]Tommy White[/autotag] being the cleanup hitter. All of those seem like home runs (no pun intended).

Here’s LSU projected batting order for the 2023 season.

Four Tigers named to baseball Preseason All-SEC teams by coaches

The Tigers’ roster is absolutely loaded in 2023.

On Thursday, the SEC coaches’ preseason conference poll was released — in which LSU was the overwhelming favorite to win the league — as well as their preseason All-SEC teams.

Four LSU Tigers made the All-SEC teams: a pair of familiar faces, and a pair of new ones. [autotag]Dylan Crews[/autotag], [autotag]Tre Morgan[/autotag], [autotag]Paul Skenes[/autotag] and [autotag]Tommy White[/autotag] all made the cut.

Crews and White both made the first team with Crews being selected as an outfielder and White being selected as a designated hitter and utility player.

What more do I need to say about Crews that hasn’t already been stated? He is the best player in college baseball, and he should be the No. 1 pick in the 2023 MLB draft. White was the best hitter in the ACC last year and he will hit a lot of dingers this spring for LSU.

Good luck pitching to him.

Paul Skenes and Tre Morgan were selected to the Second Team with Skenes being selected as a pitcher and Morgan being selected as a first baseman.

Skenes was one of the best pitchers in the country during his time at Air Force and his mystique has increased since he arrived at LSU. He is projected as a first-round draft pick in this year’s MLB draft, and he was recently named the Friday night starter for LSU.

Morgan is a man we are all familiar with. He is a wizard with his glove at first base and always seems to come up with a clutch hit when the Tigers need it the most.

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LSU baseball assembled a dream team. Will it work?

LSU baseball has one of its most talented teams ever. Will it lead to a national championship?

“Dream team.”

It’s the most conflicting phrase in sports — a term used more often before the fact rather than after. There’s a reason for that.

It’s because most dream teams turn out to be anything but. It’s rare for a team to go wire-to-wire and win the whole thing. The preseason favorite usually isn’t the one hoisting the trophy.

There’s no curse. It’s possible there are instances where the pressure gets to a team and it crumbles. Then there are cases where it’s clear the preseason favorite didn’t deserve that No. 1 spot. And sometimes, good teams just fall on some bad luck.

[autotag]Jay Johnson[/autotag], now heading into his second year, has built LSU baseball’s best roster in some time. Still, that sells it short. This squad has a chance to be the entire sport’s best roster in some time.

It could be described as a “dream team.”

As the consensus preseason No. 1 team, the expectations have never been higher. This team is supposed to win it all, there’s no other way to put it. Here’s a closer look at the narratives surrounding this team as it enters 2023 with the highest of hopes.

Four Tigers land on Baseball America’s All-America teams

The Tigers’ roster is absolutely loaded in 2023.

The accolades continue to roll in for LSU baseball. This time, they come by way of Baseball America, which released its Preseason All-America teams this week with four Tigers making the list.

[autotag]Dylan Crews[/autotag], [autotag]Tommy White[/autotag] and [autotag]Paul Skenes[/autotag] all made the First-Team while [autotag]Tre Morgan[/autotag] made the Second-Team.

Crews and Morgan are two superstars for LSU that have been with the Tigers for a while. Both of them represented LSU on Team USA last year. Crews, a centerfielder who is projected as the No. 1 player in the 2023 MLB Draft, is the best college baseball player in the country, regardless of position.

Morgan is a wizard with his glove at first base.

White and Skenes are both transfers. White came to LSU from NC State where he broke the school record for most home runs in one season by a freshman. Skenes came to LSU from Air Force where he was a star on the mound and at the plate.

LSU starts the season on Feb. 17 at home against Western Michigan.

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3 Tigers make D1Baseball’s preseason All-American team

Dylan Crews, Tommy White and Paul Skenes were all First Team selections.

D1Baseball.com recently released its preseason All-American teams and three LSU Tigers made it on the First Team: [autotag]Dylan Crews[/autotag], [autotag]Tommy White[/autotag] and [autotag]Paul Skenes[/autotag].

Crews, regarded as the best player in college baseball, is listed as a First Team outfielder. Last season, Crews finished with a .349 batting average with 22 homers and 72 RBI. Crews is projected as the No. 1 prospect in the 2023 MLB Draft, but he has some unfinished business on the Bayou as he is trying to bring a championship back to LSU.

Now, for the new kids on the block. White is a star transfer from NC State. He is listed as a First Team All-American as a designated hitter. Last season, White finished with a .362 batting average with 27 homers and 74 RBI. White broke the NC State record for most homers in a single season by a freshman.

Skenes is listed as a utility player, that’s because Skenes is an anomaly. He can hit as well as pitch. Skenes was 10-3 as a starting pitcher with a 2.73 ERA and has a .312 batting average with 13 homers and 38 RBI.

The future looks bright on the Bayou for coach Jay Johnson and the Tigers. The season gets underway on Feb. 17 at Alex Box stadium vs.. Western Michigan.

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Jay Johnson names LSU baseball’s Friday night starter

Paul Skenes will be the Tigers’ ace on the mound to start the season.

Tiger fans, it’s the most wonderful time of the year once again.

That’s right, It’s baseball season. We are less than three weeks away from first pitch against Western Michigan, and head coach [autotag]Jay Johnson[/autotag] met with the media on Friday to discuss some things about the team this season.

One of those things was the question of who will be the new No. 1 pitcher for the Tigers. [autotag]Blake Money[/autotag] was the Friday night starter last season, and he is back once again, but he is not going to be the No. 1 pitcher this time. That role is going to [autotag]Paul Skenes[/autotag], the transfer from Air Force.

Skenes is a 6-foot-6, 235-pound junior right-handed pitcher/utility player. Skenes actually played against LSU in 2021 when the Tigers started the season with Air Force. Since he arrived on campus, Skenes and fellow transfer [autotag]Tommy White[/autotag] have been garnering all types of hype and headlines.

If they live up to anywhere near as good as we think they are, this will be a special season.

Dylan Crews named Perfect Game’s Preseason Player of the Year

Crews should be one of the best players in the country and could find himself as the first pick in the MLB draft.

The preseason accolades for star LSU outfielder [autotag]Dylan Crews[/autotag] just keep rolling in. Crews was named Perfect Game’s preseason player of the year for the 2023 season.

The junior from Longwood, Florida, is considered to be one of the top prospects in the country for the next MLB draft and possibly the No. 1 overall pick. Last year, Crews had a .349 average with 22 homers, 72 RBI, and 42 walks. He also had a fielding percentage of 0.994, making only one error in 62 games.

Crews leads a stacked LSU roster heading into the 2023 season. [autotag]Jay Johnson[/autotag] has signed back-to-back No. 1 recruiting classes as well as signing some of the top players from the transfer portal, including the No. 1 and No. 2 players overall in the portal ([autotag]Tommy White[/autotag] and [autotag]Paul Skenes[/autotag]).

This team could find itself playing for a national title in Omaha, Nebraska, at the end of the year, and if it does, Crews will be a major reason why.

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4 Tigers baseball players named to top 100 impact transfers

LSU added some premier talent in the portal this offseason.

Four LSU Tigers have made D1Baseball’s list of top-100 impact transfers, and three of them landed in the top 10.

Let’s start with the two that have received the most fanfare so far, [autotag]Tommy White[/autotag] and [autotag]Paul Skenes[/autotag]. White is the reigning ACC Freshman of the Year with selections to the All-ACC First Team and ACC All-Freshman Team, and he broke the NC State school record for most home runs in a season.

Skenes is an anomaly. He can play in the field or as a starting pitcher. Skenes finished last season with a 10-3 record as a starting pitcher with an ERA of 2.73. In 85 innings pitched, he had 96 strikeouts and 30 walks.

[autotag]Thatcher Hurd[/autotag] is a 6-foot-4, 200-pound pitcher that transferred from UCLA. He pitched 34 innings for the Bruins last season and finished the year 2-0 with a 1.06 ERA, 48 strikeouts, and 10 walks.

[autotag]Christian Little[/autotag] is a transfer from Vanderbilt where he played two seasons and was a combined 4-4 with a 4.65 ERA, 95 strikeouts, and 39 walks in 81 innings pitched. The future is bright for these guys on the Bayou.

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LSU baseball receives another No. 1 preseason ranking

The Tigers could be in for a special season on the diamond.

Baseball season is getting closer by the day, and coach [autotag]Jay Johnson[/autotag] and the Tigers have received another No. 1 preseason ranking — this time, by Perfect Game.

LSU tops its preseason top 25 and an SEC-heavy top 10. The Tigers are joined by Tennessee, Arkansas, Ole Miss, Florida and Texas A&M in the top 10. The Tigers have landed two-straight No. 1 recruiting classes and have pulled in some of the top transfer players from the portal.

Expectations are at an all-time high for this season at The Box. [autotag]Dylan Crews[/autotag] and [autotag]Tre Morgan[/autotag] will be joined by ACC Freshman of the Year [autotag]Tommy White[/autotag] and Air Force transfer [autotag]Paul Skenes[/autotag].

All four of them could be early-round draft picks in the next MLB Draft, but for now, they are focused on taking the Tigers to Omaha and bringing another championship to Baton Rouge.

The season starts on Friday, Feb.. 17th against Western Michigan at Alex Box Stadium.

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LSU tops the preseason Collegiate Baseball National Ranking

The Tigers are poised to have a championship-contending team.

It is not much of a surprise, but LSU is ranked as the No. 1 team in the country entering the 2023 season, according to Collegiate Baseball.

[autotag]Jay Johnson[/autotag] is coming off back-to-back No. 1 recruiting classes and the Tigers have possibly the No. 1 pick in the MLB draft, [autotag]Dylan Crews[/autotag], roaming around in the outfield.

The team would be stacked with those guys, but I haven’t even mentioned the transfers. LSU picked up two of the top transfers in the country when the Tigers grabbed one of the best power hitters in the country, [autotag]Tommy White[/autotag], and one of the best two-way players in the country, [autotag]Paul Skenes[/autotag].

LSU is one of six SEC teams in the top ten of the rankings. They are joined by Florida (2), Texas A&M (4), Tennessee (5), Arkansas (7), and Vanderbilt (9). That goes to show just how strong the SEC is in baseball. It is going to be a great season to be at Alex Box Stadium.

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