Should women and men play on teams together?

"Into high school" meaning that she was back on the girls teams by the time she was in high school, iirc.

 

Basketball players probably should just keep quiet on such matters.

At least until the stink of this goes away:

http://www.ncaa.com/auto_pdf/p_hotos/s_chools/ncaa/sports/w-baskbl/auto_pdf/UConnStanfordBox

 

Probably. So she was probably taking advantage of the age when girls develop faster than boys.

 

5-1, 115, with a 70-mph fastball.

Well that's certainly a serious contribution to the discussion. : :

 

The only determining factor should be ability. I'm assuming nobody here is saying a woman who could command a 100 mph fastball with movement shouldn't be excluded, right? Unlikely for sure, but that's got to be the starting point for any serious discussion here. Yoshida is an interesting case, because she's not going to add 30 mph to her fastball, but if she gets her knuckleball going and adds 10 mph to her fastball, I'm not sure she'd be MLB's worst pitcher, ever. Could the Diamondbacks be any worse?

 

Yes. Significantly worse.

 

No it doesn't -- there is no such animal.

 

You know desperation sets in when you have to qualify a poor performance by basically saying, "But they hit only .300 against her before she tired so early!"

 

I'm sure it's mostly a gimmick, but it seemed appropriate for the discussion.

But if knuckleballers like Charlie Hough, the Niekros, and Tim Wakefield could all pitch into their forties, could a strong athletic woman master the knuckleball and survive in the high minors or majors?

Maybe. Maybe not. But it's got to be one of the few scenarios that would be believable.