The 2018 baseball season never really got off the ground, as injuries derailed the train before it even got to the station. The team lost its best pitcher to offseason surgery in Eric Walker, and arguably the team’s best position player, Josh Smith, managed just 16 at bats before losing his season to injury.
LSU won just 39 games, which is what counts as a down year around these parts, before getting sent off to Corvalis in the opening weekend to get hammered into submission by the eventual national champions, Oregon St. That’s the bad news.
The good news is LSU lost very little production and it gets back Walker and Smith.