Jay Johnson and the LSU Tigers celebrated their 2025 national championship at Alex Box Stadium on Wednesday night. Thursday, it was back to work on building the 2026 roster.
Johnson landed a big pickup out of the transfer portal.North Dakota State pitcher Danny Lachenmayer is heading to Baton Rouge to continue his college career.
Heading to the bayou #GeauxTigers pic.twitter.com/A3r8mbZ72S
— Danny Lachenmayer (@dannylachenmay2) June 26, 2025
A 6-3, 195-pound left-hander from Eagan, Minnesota, he made 24 appearances last season out of the bullpen. One of those appearances was against LSU on March 4. He faced 7 batters over 1.2 innings, allowing 2 earned runs on 1 hit and 1 walk.
Danny Lachenmayer was impressive in an appearance against #LSU at the beginning of the season.
— Mik’d Up (@Mikdup_8) June 26, 2025
Now he will pitch for the Tigers pic.twitter.com/diBxLF78fW
The number that immediately jumps off the page with Lachenmayer is 56 strikeouts over 38 innings of work. He posted a 2.37 ERA with an opposing batting average of .192, allowing 13 runs (10 earned) over 154 batters faced.
As a reliever, Lachenmayer did not log an outing longer than 3.1 IP. He collected 9 saves.
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