First the bad news: if you pull a random LSU baseball player from a hat, you’re statistically likely to pull the name of a player that is currently injured. This week the big blow was the staff’s inarguable ace freshman Cole Henry being benched due to elbow tenderness just as Mainieri was planning to move him to the Friday night role.
The good news: if LSU is going to have a week to be as depleted as they currently are, this is the perfect week. Alabama is without a doubt the easiest weekend the Tigers will have from here on out, to say more about the schedule than the Tide.