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College  | Story  | 3/1/2020

Shriners Classic: Day 2 Notebook

Brian Sakowski     
Photo: Landon Marceaux (Phillip Cancilleri)

Shriners Classic: Day 1 Notebook | College Player Database | College Player Rankings

Players covered: Landon Marceaux (LSU), Konnor Ash (Missouri), Trey Dillard (Missouri), Levi Prater (Oklahoma), Evan Godwin (Baylor), Ty Madden (Texas).



Landon Marceaux, RHP, Louisiana State
One of the premier performers in Perfect Game events throughout his prep career, LSU sophomore righthander Landon Marceaux has ascended to the Saturday starter role in his second season on campus and is performing well again. Always very advanced in terms of pitchability, Marceaux's stuff hasn't necessarily taken large strides forward since his prep days, but the ability to pitch at a high-level in the SEC combined with already-quality stuff has him taking strides up early '21 draft boards regardless. He didn't factor into the decision in LSU's game against Baylor on Saturday evening in Houston, but went six strong innings, allowing a pair of runs on six hits and two walks while striking out six in the process

Marceaux is undersized, listed at just 6-foot, 177-pounds on the LSU roster, but there's a good bit of athleticism to the profile and he's already done a nice job of working to fill out his frame. It's a pretty easy and simple operation, mechanically speaking, really doing a nice job of engaging his back hip and riding it down the slope, driving well off of his backside and generating good power there in his lower half. He rotates well and gets online with his hips at foot strike, with an easy arm stroke that stays inline through the back with no wrap/hook, getting the arm up in a timely manner and being able to consistently get over his front side. The front side is high throughout the process, which certainly aids him in deception as well, before releasing from a very high three-quarters slot.

The fastball worked in the 90-93 mph range for the majority of his outing, commanding it well to both sides of the plate and mostly living down in the zone, doing a nice job of getting a good amount of weak contact with the fastball, given both the plane he generates as well as the deception. He tunnels his slider and changeup really well out of that high slot, and though neither pitch grades consistently above average on it's own, the entire arsenal plays quite well together. The slider is solid average in the low-80s with late, sharp dive while the changeup is thrown in the same velocity range with likewise solid average action. He's comfortable throwing any pitch to hitters of either handedness, getting Nick Loftin to swing through a right-on-right changeup early in the game for example.

Marceaux presents an interesting case study as it pertains to the modern day major league starting pitching construction. In the past, a guy like Marceaux was an easy No. 4-5 MLB starter projection with three solid average pitches, command, the ability to go deep into games and excellent pitchability. These days, backend starters are more so guys with huge stuff who can't quite harness it enough to go deep into games, but give 4-5 innings with lots of strikeouts and high pitch counts with below average command. It's tougher to project on Marceaux given his smaller stature, and thankfully we have 16 months to really grade him out, but regardless of his draft stock he's likely to be a dominant college pitcher for the rest of his LSU career.


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