Garcia is overrated as a hitter IMO. Unless the UCLA connection is that strong, I doubt she would have even been selected had the selection been done after this years WCWS. Heck I am not even sure she was the best pitcher on her college team this year..
Could have been. If they wanted to take somebody who can hit, and has hit against grown women, I would have taken that catcher from Italy (Piancastelli). She took some good cuts against USA when they played them..
I think both reed and McCleney are slappers but they both mainly opted to hit away lefty for the Olympics. I’m not sure though. I’ve definitely seen reed slap in a game before and I think I’ve seen McCleney slap here and there. It’s strange that neither of them really tried to slap in the Olympic Games. Maybe the defense of the Olympic teams is just too good for slap hits to be as effective as they are in college? Or maybe they both just prefer swinging away?
They had trials but they were 2 years ago I believe.
How did they do trials?
