Statistically Speaking: A look at the national champions

By Hunt Palmer

A week has come and gone since LSU hoisted the hardware on Charles Schwab Field.

Transfer portal commitments have become public, summer assignments have begun, and the page is being turned to next season. Let’s take one more look back at the stat sheet to highlight some of the more noteworthy numbers along the way to LSU’s eighth national title.

• Jared Jones led the team with 11 three-hit games and tied Derek Curiel for the team lead in multi-hit games with 26. Jones is generally regarded as a power bat that strikes out a lot. Well, he collected a ton of hits in 2025. In fact, his 90 hits led the team, clipping Curiels 89 by one.
• Chris Stanfield had 15 doubles on the year. Fourteen of those came in SEC play. He led the Tigers in league games with a .325 average playing in all 30 SEC contests.
• Jake Brown only started 16 SEC game and had 50 fewer SEC at bats than Curiel. He still hit six SEC homers which was one short of Jones’s team-best seven SEC home runs.
• Steven Milam hit .211 in SEC play, 25 points lower than Michael Braswell’s SEC batting average. Milam had six multi-hit games in 30 SEC contests. In 11 NCAA tournament games, he matched that number.
• Daniel Dickinson hit in every spot in the order but ninth.
• LSU made multiple errors just nine times in 68 games. By contrast, they played error-free 35 times.
• LSU outscored opponents 90-25 in the first inning. That was the best mark of any inning.
• LSU was 9-3 in one-run games.
• LSU pitching recorded at least 10 strikeouts in 48 of 68 games including 20 of 30 SEC games. The Tigers led the country in strikeouts for the second consecutive year.
• Jacob Mayers allowed just four hits on the season in 15 innings of work.
• Cooper Williams’s season-long ERA was just 1.80. He allowed four earned runs in 20 innings.
• Casan Evans pitched 52.2 innings. Zac Cowan pitched 52 innings. Both allowed exactly 44 hits. Their combined strikeout to walk ration was 131-31.
• LSU was 31-6 when Kade Anderson or Anthony Eyanson started the game.
• LSU’s staff allowed 7.3 hits per nine innings, third best in the SEC
• LSU was 45-2 when leading after 6
• LSU was 40-1 when leading after 7
• LSU was 39-1 when leading after 8
• LSU was 12-1 in the midweek.
• Jay Johnson is 46-7 in the midweek over four seasons