Presumably, Grein is going to be better purely from being a year older. It really serves no purpose to bring up Grein other than to look for trouble. There can be discussions about the staff, but there is no way to know how she would do here this year, with this staff, with this offense, with this schedule. Comparing her numbers and saying her development is better elsewhere can't be proven. Odds are she has a relatively great year here, but odds are, she does not get 25 starts here. So "relatively great" does not translate into anything close to a 28-2 record. This year, we played 56 games: Emma had 24 starts Mazzarone had 18 starts Kleiman had 11 starts Grizzard had 3 starts If Grein stays, Kleiman does not come, which is fine in the scheme of things. Say that Grein gets Kleiman's 11 starts and likely Grizzard's 3. That is 14 starts. Is Mazzarone going to lose starts? Will Lemley lose starts in her senior year? To actually take advantage of a developed Grein, she would cut Mazzarone's starts nearly in half? We would have potentially lost Mazzarone to transfer if she came into 2025 looking at getting 7-9 starts. At Oregon, she was the co-ace of the staff. With more responsibility, she was likely going to mature, develop mentally, etc. She could have been the co-ace here and maybe had similar levels of responsibility but Lemley would have been ace no. 1. At what price? Maybe there would have been willingness among the fans to lose Mazzarone and likely have 1-2 of the freshmen be the 3rd pitcher. I have no idea whatever other issues existed. The larger point is would fans want to lose as much as or more than we gain? ** Edited by VAHokie89 at 5/20/2025, 8:49:18 PM ** Edited by VAHokie89 at 5/20/2025, 8:52:15 PM ** Edited by VAHokie89 at 5/20/2025, 9:00:19 PM ** Edited by VAHokie89 at 5/21/2025, 12:21:37 AM