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LSU baseball's regular season came to an end on Saturday with the Tigers falling 15-11 to Florida at home. LSU was swept for the fifth time in its final six series. That wasn't how LSU envisioned 2026 after begining the year ranked No. 2 in the polls.
It wasn't all bleak for LSU down the stretch, though. A bright spot was the emergence of catcher/designated hitter Cade Arrambide. The sophomore recovered from a midseason slump to become one of the best hitters in the SEC. Arrambide, from Texas and standing at 6-foot-3, was viewed as one of LSU's most talented players since he arrived. He finally put it all together.
Arrambide finished with a 1.178 OPS in conference play, second in the SEC, only trailing Georgia's Daniel Jackson. On the year, Arrambide hit 18 homers with a .326 batting average. He finished strong with two homers in the regular season finale. After the game, head coach Jay Johnson talked about Arrambide's continued development.
"As he moves forward, all he needs to do is double down on the improvement and the approach and the swing, and he'll be one of the best hitters you could have," Johnson said.
Arrambide was out of the lineup for a small chunk of games midseason. The absence came as Arrambide struggled and we didn't know if Arrambide was simply hurt, or if it was a soft benching. Johnson talked about that period, calling it a "breather."
"He was never injured, but kind of beat up, and that's the nature of catching, like foul balls off his foot, foul balls off his leg. So I think he got his legs underneath him healthy with a little bit of a breather. And we got to work on basically what you saw him do, and he got comfortable with hitting the ball to all parts of the field, hitting all pitch types, taking the right pitches, seeing the ball incredibly well, a real positive movement into the ball with his body and his swing," Johnson said.
Johnson said Arrambide's sample size of success is enough to say this is who Arrambide is now -- one of the best hitters in the SEC.
This article originally appeared on LSU Wire: LSU baseball's Jay Johnson on Cade Arrambide: "That's who he is now"
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It wasn't all bleak for LSU down the stretch, though. A bright spot was the emergence of catcher/designated hitter Cade Arrambide. The sophomore recovered from a midseason slump to become one of the best hitters in the SEC. Arrambide, from Texas and standing at 6-foot-3, was viewed as one of LSU's most talented players since he arrived. He finally put it all together.
Arrambide finished with a 1.178 OPS in conference play, second in the SEC, only trailing Georgia's Daniel Jackson. On the year, Arrambide hit 18 homers with a .326 batting average. He finished strong with two homers in the regular season finale. After the game, head coach Jay Johnson talked about Arrambide's continued development.
"As he moves forward, all he needs to do is double down on the improvement and the approach and the swing, and he'll be one of the best hitters you could have," Johnson said.
Arrambide was out of the lineup for a small chunk of games midseason. The absence came as Arrambide struggled and we didn't know if Arrambide was simply hurt, or if it was a soft benching. Johnson talked about that period, calling it a "breather."
"He was never injured, but kind of beat up, and that's the nature of catching, like foul balls off his foot, foul balls off his leg. So I think he got his legs underneath him healthy with a little bit of a breather. And we got to work on basically what you saw him do, and he got comfortable with hitting the ball to all parts of the field, hitting all pitch types, taking the right pitches, seeing the ball incredibly well, a real positive movement into the ball with his body and his swing," Johnson said.
Johnson said Arrambide's sample size of success is enough to say this is who Arrambide is now -- one of the best hitters in the SEC.
This article originally appeared on LSU Wire: LSU baseball's Jay Johnson on Cade Arrambide: "That's who he is now"
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