LSU’s right-handed starting pitcher will be sidelined for the rest of the 2026 season due to an arm injury he sustained early in SEC play, head coach Jay Johnson announced Monday night.
Moore has been dealing with the issue since the third week of conference action, but after it failed to improve, the coaching staff ultimately decided to shut down their weekend starter.
Johnson also confirmed that Moore will receive a medical redshirt and is expected to return to Baton Rouge in 2027 as a junior, maintaining leverage for the MLB Draft.
The Kansas transfer had a solid start to his first season with LSU, posting a 3-3 record and a 3.38 ERA over six starts. He recorded 39 strikeouts while issuing just seven walks across 32 innings.
Per LouisianaSports.net, Johnson noted that Moore’s recovery timeline is estimated at up to four months, which would put him on track to rejoin the team in the fall as he prepares for the 2027 campaign.
Jay Johnson’s Take: Time to Rejuvenate the Program
“This will never happen again. We need to be able to stay on the ball better and hit the ball back through the middle of the field in the other way and hit the ball lower with shorter swings,” Johnson said on Friday.
“I made some mistakes in constructing the team and trying to replace two guys that were irreplaceable where we should have looked for replacing them through guys that were already in the program and then replaced the guys that were athletic and could play defense and be more complete players.
“We won’t make that mistake again. The power moving forward will come from players that start their career here and develop into it, like Jake [Brown] has this year. But I can’t do anything about that now. But what I can do is try to get them to understand, like, Texas A&M, a top-five team, won the game tonight because they hit the ball hard and low the other way.”
