lu cards Posted July 6, 2016 Share Posted July 6, 2016 http://lamarcardinals.com/news/2016/7/3/baseball-russell-finishes-third-in-collegiate-home-run-derby.aspx?path=baseball CONGRATS ON AN AWESOME SHOWING Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geezer Posted July 6, 2016 Share Posted July 6, 2016 While I would have liked LU going farther in the post season, his performance made for a good end to the season. Hope he does well if he attempts to play professionally. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KABrother88 Posted July 6, 2016 Share Posted July 6, 2016 I meant to post something about this before it happened but life got in the way. I was able to watch it however and he had a very good showing...one thing I feel like that hurt him was his pitchers pace. It was setup to where each guy had 4 minutes to take as many hacks as they wanted. It didn't seem like he was in a rush early in round 1 and snuck in to the 2nd round with 15. In round 2 it seemed they picked up the pace a bit and he hit another 15...however his total of 30 was 1 short of what he needed to move on to the finals. The slower pace could have been by design however to keep him from tiring...but either way it makes you wonder what he could have done with 1 or 2 more cuts. Having him back next season will be huge and with the amount of turnover on the pitching staff could make big offensive performance a must...I still do not see how a guy who hit .354 with 18 HRs didn't get drafted even in the latter rounds... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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