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2013 SEC Tournament Session 3 GAMETHREAD - LSU v. Alabama, A Slight Return

And The Valley Shook — The SEC baseball tournament is technically meaningless for LSU. OK, there's an automatic bid at stake and there's the whole "banners fly forever" thing, if we hung banners for winning the SEC tournament around these parts. But LSU is going to be hosting a regional next weekend as a national seed, and nothing that happens this week will change that. On the other hand, the last two times LSU won a national title, it won the SEC tournament. So it never hurts to start the postseason off right. We're playing these games, so we might as well win them. Besides, we owe South Carolina a bit of ...

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2013 SEC Tournament - Session 2 OPEN THREAD

And The Valley Shook — Session 2 TV: CSS/Cox Sports (Watch on ESPN3.com) Radio: XM 199/Sirius 158 (Free National audio stream from the SEC) Game 3 - 4:30 p.m. #8 Florida vs. #9 Texas A&M; - Single Elimination LIVE STATS Series Record - Did not play in the regular season Probable starters UF - RHP SO Johnny Magliozzi (4-1, 2.14 ERA, 54.2 IP, 12 BB, 45 K)A&M; - RHP SO Daniel Mengden (7-3, 1.92 ERA, 98.1 IP, 20 BB, 80 K) Game 4 - 30 minutes after the conclusion of Game 3 #5 Mississippi State vs. #12 Missouri - Single Elimination LIVE STATS Series Record - Did not meet in the regular season Probable Starters...

May 21, 2013

2013 SEC Tournament - Session 1 OPEN THREAD

And The Valley Shook — Session 1 TV: FSN (Watch on ESPN3.com) Radio: XM 199/Sirius 158 (Free National audio stream from the SEC) Game 1 9:30 a.m. #6 Ole Miss vs. #11 Kentucky - Single Elimination LIVE STATS 2013 Series Record: UK 2-1 @ Ole Miss Probable Starters UK: LHP SR Jerad Grundy (6-5, 4.75 ERA, 77.2 IP, 20 BB, 60 K)OM: RHP JR Mike Mayers (4-5, 3.21 ERA, 81.1 IP, 30 BB, 66 K) Game 2 (30 minutes after the conclusion of Game 1) #7 Alabama vs. #10 Auburn - Single Elimination LIVE STATS 2013 Series Record: 2-2 (Bama 2-1 @ Auburn; Auburn 1-0 @ Montgomery) Probable Starters BAMA: LHP SO Justin Kamplain (1-...

May 21, 2013

2013 SEC Baseball Tournament Preview

And The Valley Shook — The SEC Tournament kicks off on Tuesday. Some teams have a lot on the line while others don't have much to play for. Here is a look at what each time is looking to accomplish in Hoover. Auburn (33-22, 13-17) After starting conference play 1-8, Auburn was left for dead when it came to any discussions about the NCAA Tournament. But the team got their act together and played solid baseball from that point forward, winning 12 of their last 21 SEC contests. They finished the regular season by taking two of three from Arkansas. And with that, Auburn may have just played their way in...

May 20, 2013

2013 SEC Baseball Tournament GAMETHREAD

And The Valley Shook — Covering the the greatest tournament in College Baseball from 1st pitch to Championship Sunday The 2013 SEC Baseball Tournament gets underway tomorrow with another year of live TV coverage of every game in the tournament. In addition, every game of the tournament will also be streamed on the ESPN3.com/WatchESPN Service and will have a neutral national radio feed on Sirius XM. The tournament was expanded this year to include 12 of the 14 teams in the conference, with the opening round being single elimination, followed by the normal double elimination bracket with a single championsh...

May 20, 2013

MLB Draft Preview - Part 2: Signing Class

And The Valley Shook — After looking at how the draft may impact the current roster in Part 1 of the MLB Draft Preview, we'll now take a look at LSU's Signing Class and how they may be impacted. In each signing class, it seems that LSU will take at least one super prospect...a guy that will almost certainly end up a high draft choice and turn pro. Guys like Joey Gallo, Jake Cave and Johnny Eiermann come to mind. But occasionally something will happen, and the circumstances will allow someone like Alex Bregman to slide through and play college ball. Any high schooler picked in the top five rounds is a nea...

May 20, 2013

Spring Football Five Things: Arkansas

And The Valley Shook — We close our run through LSU's football schedule with a look at how Arkansas handled their first spring practice with their new coach. Our guest this week is Doc Harper of Arkansas Expats. 1. Brett Bielema was certainly an unexpected choice for Arkansas, and seems like an...odd fit, I guess? What was fan reaction to the hire, and how has he been received through the first few months? The day the news broke, most fans were like "wha? who?" Our search was so long that virtually every coach in the country was discussed by fans at some point, and he never even really made it on the r...

May 20, 2013

2013 SEC Baseball Tournament - Bracket and TV Times

And The Valley Shook — The 2013 SEC Baseball Tournament gets underway tomorrow with another year of live TV coverage of every game in the tournament. In addition, every game of the tournament will also be streamed on the ESPN3.com/WatchESPN Service and will have a neutral national radio feed on Sirius XM. The tournament was expanded this year to include 12 of the 14 teams in the conference, with the opening round being single elimination, followed by the normal double elimination bracket with a single championship game on Sunday afternoon. The days are divided into 2 sessions of 2 games each, with the sec...

May 20, 2013

Not At Full Strength, LSU Wins Series vs. Ole Miss

And The Valley Shook — Paul Maineri had an interesting choice to make heading into this weekend. His team had already clinched the SEC West championship, and Vanderbilt had already clinched the overall SEC championship. LSU was also a lock to receive a national seed in the NCAA Tournament, regardless of what happened against Ole Miss. Essentially, nothing was going to be won, or lost, this weekend. So Maineri could have beat his fists on the table and tried like hell to convince his players that this series was still important in efforts to maintain some momentum heading into the post-season. Or,...

May 20, 2013

LSU v. OLE MISS - GAME 3

And The Valley Shook — Noon - CBS Sports Net (Direct TV Ch. 613, U-Verse Ch. 643 and Ch. 1643, Dish Network Ch. 158, 1315 on Cox in NOLA) LSU – Jr. RHP Ryan Eades (8-1, 2.29 ERA, 82.2 IP, 23 BB, 69 SO)UM – Jr. RHP Bobby Wahl (9-0, 1.43 ERA, 88.0 IP, 40 BB, 73 SOLSU LINEUPS LSU (Big Changes for SR day) Rhymes LF, Katz 2B, Sciambra CF, Edward DH, Moore 3B, Chinea 1B, Barash, Foster RF, Yocom SS RHP Eades Ole Miss Mathis-LF; Bousfield-CF; Anderson-SS; Turner-C; Mistone-3B; Orvis-1B; P. Overbey-2b;Jamison-RF;Allen-DH;RHP Wahl

May 18, 2013

LSU v. OLE MISS - GAME 2

And The Valley Shook — 7pm - Cox SportsLSU – Jr. RHP Kurt McCune (3-1, 3.38 ERA, 13.1 IP, 4 BB, 8 SO)UM – So. RHP Sam Smith (3-0, 3.15 ERA, 54.1 IP, 15 BB, 27 SO) LINEUPS LSU McMullen DH, Laird RF, Bregman SS, Katz 2B, Rhymes LF, Ibarra 3B, Moore 1B , Ross C, Stevenson CF. RHP McCune Ole Miss Mathis-LF; Anderson-SS; Turner-C; Mistone-3B; Bousfield-CF; Orvis-1B; Perdzock-DH;P. Overbey-2b; Jamison-RF; RHP Smith

May 17, 2013

LSU Baseball Stat Watch: Starting Pitching

And The Valley Shook — Here is a breakdown of the various event types that happen with our starting pitching. You have ground out rate (GO%), fly out rate (FO%), walk rate (BB%), strike out rate (K%), and hit rate (H%). The first chart is the complete season totals and the second chart is exclusively SEC opponents. Aaron Nola is the most balanced player in the LSU rotation. Nola gets his outs almost equally between strike outs, ground outs, and fly outs with all of them being above 20%. I like that his strike out rate is high because it means the ball is not in play, which reduces the chances of...

May 17, 2013

Athlon's Anonymous SEC Coach Outtakes

And The Valley Shook — We're itching closer to one of the offseason halfway points -- the preseason magazine release dates! Personally, I stick with Phil Steele, mostly for the information overload he gives you (not so much his predictions -- so accurate! Just ask him!), but to each their own, and Athlon, Lindy's and Sporting News are certainly still out there, so somebody must be buying them. One of the standard features involves quoting certain "anonymous SEC coaches" regarding each of the league's 12 teams. Sure, they usually just parrot whatever the popular message board opinion is of the team in quest...

May 17, 2013

LSU Blasts The Rebels, Takes Game 1 7-1

And The Valley Shook — We made a point of saying in this weekend's preview that LSU has little to play for this weekend against Ole Miss. Seeding in the SEC tournament is locked in and a National Seed and the accompanying hosting rights are all but assured. Ole Miss on the other hand comes in needing to separate themselves from the SEC mid pack to get themselves into the hosting discussion and a series win against the #2 team in the country would certainly do that. To bad for the Rebels that LSU loves to play spoiler. LSU came out firing immediately with 2 runs on 4 hits in the first and never looked back. O...

May 17, 2013

LSU v Ole Miss - GAME 1

And The Valley Shook — 6:30pm - ESPNULSU – So. LHP Cody Glenn (5-2, 2.78 ERA, 68.0 IP, 16 BB, 33 SO)UM – Jr. RHP Mike Mayers (4-4, 2.87 ERA, 75.1 IP, 29 BB, 59 SO) LINEUPS LSU McMullen DH, Laird RF, Bregman SS, Katz 2B, Rhymes LF, Ibarra 3B, Moore 1B , Ross C, Stevenson CF. LHP Glenn Ole Miss Mathis-LF; Anderson-SS; Turner-C; Mistone-3B; Bousfield-CF; Orvis-1B; P. Overbey-RF; Allen-DH; RHP Mayers That's right, no JaCoby Jones Apparently Jones hurt his hand in an apartment accident. Don't ask what happened, because my guess is as good as yours. #LSU #LSUBaseball — Lawrence Barreca (@LawrenceBarreca) May 16, ...

May 16, 2013