After an electric sophomore season for the HCYA Warriors, during which she blasted 18 home runs and collected 58 RBIs, Taegan Lermann has kept her hot streak going this summer. Playing for the Hotshots National 18U Nelson squad, Lermann is batting over .400 with 15 RBIs, four doubles, and two home runs. While playing tough competition in Oklahoma City during Top Club Nationals, she routinely put the ball in play, striking out zero times. Her swing is short and quick through the zone, ideal for hitting line drives into the gap and sometimes over the wall. If you don’t pitch her carefully, it’s comparable to stretching a rubber band too far, and then getting blasted by the recoil.