What makes LSU’s Dylan Crews an elite center fielder? His coaches will tell you.

At the Marucci Clubhouse in Lake Mary, Florida, there’s a screen at the front of the weight room displaying a list of conditioning-drill record-holders.

The first, “max vertical jump,” has Florida Atlantic’s Jalen Debose at the top with a 45.5-inch vertical. Next is 2021 NBA slam dunk-contest winner Anfernee Simons at 44.8 inches. Free agent NFL cornerback Nickell-Robey Coleman is third before you arrive at the fourth-highest vertical jump in the gym: Dylan Crews, 42.3 inches.

This is where Crews trains in the summer and over the winter break with his longtime strength coach Jeff Higuera.

“There have been times where he’s been across the board our best athlete,” Higuera said in early January. “But every time I can find somebody to beat him, I definitely let him know.”

These are the things that make Crews an elite center fielder: a dedication to strength and conditioning. He originally came to Higuera at 16 years old to improve his 60-yard dash time, which is the first drill a player does when he attends a showcase by Perfect Game.

Crews does still hold one record at the gym: the 10-yard sprint, where his time is 1.37 seconds, but he’s in the top six of every test.

That dash time is especially important for an outfielder. And while Crews is known for his bat — at .510, his batting average ranks No. 5 nationally — he also wants to be known for his fielding. That’s what he told LSU coach Jay Johnson during their first phone call, and Johnson laid out a plan for him to become better in the field.

“I just want to be a complete player,” Crews said Saturday.

That was evident when Crews caught a high fly ball over his head against Samford on Sunday, and immediately after, he dove for a line drive, retiring the second and third batters in the top of the first inning.

That was after Saturday, when he caught a high fly ball that dropped just short of the fence in center field in the top of the second inning to retire the leadoff batter.