Will likely pitch in the playoffs

Florida pitching is the weakness. Same with Kentucky. They pitch by committee out of necessity not by choice. Rochard and Lemley are better than any pitcher on either of those teams and it isn't close.

After the 1st game on Friday, thought we'd take them in 2 games due to their pitching. Also think that might have still been the case if we don't have that rain delay pushing that game into Saturday that we wouldn't have to finish first. We got lots of runners on base Saturday but didn't get them in to score. That seemed to be the key. They also switched pitchers enough to keep you off balance. Still if the near grand slam hits on Saturday, we probably do beat them on Saturday and are in the WCWS, so that was just bad luck. Where was the Blacksburg win when you need it? Florida was definitely better defensively on Sunday, when for some reason our defense was just off all game (errors from the 1st inning on).

We got as far as we did by having two really good pitchers. But you touch on an interesting topic and I believe it depends on the philosophy of the head coach. To keep good pitchers, and other players, they have to have enough playing time to keep them focused and invested in the team. Next year we will have two really good freshman pitchers, plus Emma, Ivy and possibly Ozzy still on board. Is that too many or not enough? This really is a question Pete will have to answer.

You have to play your best players. You can't 'hide' a good one so there is no film. I guess maybe if you are the best softball school of all time and had 2 Keelys and 2 Emmas you might could hide them as frosh but you would end up using them to get dubs...

Five of them pitched in 18 or more games. The gators had a lot more options for different looks and pitching against strengths of certain opponents. Keely and Emma had amazing seasons. But it seems at this level you need more options