Thanks for kicking off this thread!
I remember when Connie first brought on 5 pitchers we were shaking our heads. I remember thinking, "Great. She now is trying the shotgun method of finding the next Cat or Blair. One of these five has to be good!"
And then, another ticket holder turned to me as we were griping about it and said, "You know, there has never been a team that's made the WCWS with 5 pitchers."
As that phrase goes, That-was-then-this-is-now.
During the WCWS, the commentators mentioned that OU had 6 (!) pitchers. Wait what? So your mention of 5 pitchers had me curious and I went to their web site (before they scrub the pictures of the transfers)
1)
G. Juarez (transfer from ASU)
2)
Shannon Saile (transfer from FIU)
3)
Brooke Vestal (freshman from New Braunfels and an example of how Connie miss on someone in her own backyard)
4)
Parker Conrad (transfer from Mizzou)
5)
Mariah Lopez (in transfer portal - waited 3 years to be a starter and now realizes that's not going to happen)
So with Lopez leaving that leaves OU with 4 pitchers....and then they get more players in! Wow, they signed 8 players last Fall:
Softball Inks Eight for 2019-20
(of those 8, 3 are listed as pitchers!)
5*) Macy McAdoo
6*) Alanna Nelson-Thiede
7*) Olivia Rains
Technically, OU will have 7 pitchers on staff next year!
Sorry, steered into a OU thread. But if the #2 team (on paper, right now) will have 7 pitchers....then we will have (on paper)
1) Miranda Elish
2) Shea O'Leary
3) Arianna Adams
4) Grace Green
5) Courtney Day
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