- Jun 12, 2015
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I was thinking 12 (well for our age group which is 10U). That way if all girls are present you have 2 sitting together, rather than one sitting alone. But at least IME from my first season of travel ball, we had 1-2 girls missing as often as not. If we'd only carried 10 we'd have been playing with 8 or 9 a lot. We could have done it but we could barely compete with all 10 in the field. Our particular team wouldn't have stood a chance 2 short. And the girls who sat got rotated (mostly rotated through the outfield players - this was 8U) so no one girl had to feel like she was the worst one and had to sit every game. It seemed like it worked out pretty well to me though I suppose if my daughter had been one of the outfielders I might have felt a little differently.