I carried 4 on a rec tourny team, and I would have to agree with Lenski, it didn't work. Two were pretty good pitchers who we threw most of the time. The third was an amazing fielder who carried herself quite well as a middle infieder. I did have her close a couple of games, and she was successful in that. It probably would have worked pretty well with just the three, however, the fourth IMHO was never an answer to a pitching concern. Although she's not a bad pitcher, she is too hittable (slow), especially in that venue. The problem with that was she and her parents were not happy due to lack of mound time. This progressed into a player who just wasn't having fun and didn't, or couldn't, contribute to the team anywhere else. It was an unfortunate situation which ended pretty ugly. I play to win and have absolutley no regrets in my decisions to use 2 pitchers 90% of the time. The third pitcher was a blessing in a couple of unique situations where we found ourselves needy . The fourth was a little over kill, but could have helped in other areas. We just never saw that side of her all summer. Like I said before, made for a bad situation.