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But we have shortstop covered; so we have that going for us. I think we will be okay; but that numerically huge class of Sophomores during the 2025 season who didn’t do much at all during the 2024 season (excluding Richardson who played some) are going to have to show that they can play at the...

What’s the lineup going to look like next year? Thoughts on if the Gophers can climb back up toward the top of the legacy Big Ten conference teams (I am excluding UCLA, Washington, and Oregon from this question due to unfairness).

Oklahoma would be my extremely uneducated guess.

With only one player (thankfully… so far) transferring out; don’t expect in-transfers. Our roster was over-full last season. Our roster for 2025 is going to have to be built the old-fashioned way: with hopefully 4-year student-athletes. Nebraska on the other hand is vacuuming up transfers...

I don’t think Stanford came up short at all. Stanford is a top 4 team! That’s an incredible achievement unlikely to happen again anytime soon. I am not a huge fan of Coach Allister given what she did to us, but I gotta give her credit, she took a bad team and turned it into a great team. Of...

Shooter has good access to information.

“Splashy hire”? To Minnesota Gopher baseball? That is not going to happen. It would never happen.

I do not like that transfer. I was always pro-Leschber. I though she has a beautiful swing with a lot of upside potential on our team.

It’s quite simple. I live in Tennessee so I can tell you that it is really pleasant to do athletic things outside in March, April and into May. By June and certainly July, it is hot as the sun. Anyway, the best outdoor days in the American South line up perfectly with the softball season...

I may be the only one who thinks this but in my mind, “who cares?” I couldn’t care less about UCLA, Oregon, and Washington. But I didn’t want them in the conference anyway. All I care about is Minnesota and how that Gopher softball team will provide to me maximum entertainment from February to...

As we softball fans wait in fear for who could wind up on the portal to transfer out, it is worth mentioning that to date, the Gophers have net-gained by transfers over the past 10 years or so in my opinion. The Gophers have done a really good job, through the instability of two coaching...

Susa appears to be one helluva high school pitcher. As of today, she is the key player on the number one ranked team in the state of Ohio. Too bad no one really knows for sure how a pitcher will transition between high school and college level.

Taylor and Jess provide a well-practiced interview. They are clearly disciplined in their sport so it only makes sense that they are disciplined and practiced in their communication. They don’t step on any landmines, speak clearly, and give the appropriate (though often stated by most players)...

To be one if those teams, it is now more clear to me than ever before that it all starts in the circle. It is essential that the Gophers have at least one ace pitcher on staff with BOTH the command to reliably throw strikes and the stuff to be able to strike out opposing batters in bunches.

I fully agree with rwlawson’s analysis. The only addition I would make is that these next handful or two of weeks will be the most important of Ritter’s tenure. She will have to convince Gopher players and pending recruits (and we all know especially who) that this team is on a path to be again...

Seasons are unpredictable I guess. Strelow had a career year, while Ehlke struggled more than expected. Enter pitched better than I expected while Snippes struggled more than expected. Besides Richardson, the Freshman class really didn’t make its presence felt. I am still waiting for Burnett and...

Good explanation. Thank you for this. Now one more question, who was this?

? I don’t get this. What does this mean?

What if our best chance to get a named coach is for Coach Trachsel to come back? This conversation is straight-up crazy! Big named coaches are not going to come to the frozen tundra of Minnesota. I’m with native Minnesotan Piper Ritter. She wants to be here. She is a good coach. Let’s keep her...

If our key players stay, I will be disappointed by anything worse than 6th place in the Big Ten next year.