Even if we think of it as "sitting out a year', there is a very good chance she would not have played last year at all, or just minimal. The word is that she was not getting people out and needed the off-season to work on that. Whether we call it a "redshirt" or whatever, she sat and didn't play and would not have played much. Maybe she gets some spot innings like Addyson Fisher did this year. Fisher got 15 innings of work this year that, in reality, could have gone to someone else. Grizzaard got 1 inning of work this year. So Players will still sit and not play in this 5-year system, so just saying that it is not like "she would not have had to".