Clare Picone is Monmouth’s contact-first catcher with gap power and steady hands
In the 2026 season, Clare Picone has been a useful middle-order piece for Monmouth, hitting .200 with a .660 OPS while adding 8 hits, 5 RBI and 1 home run across 17 games (15 starts).[3] Her calling card remains a balanced profile: she showed extra-base juice as a freshman in 2025 with 7 doubles, a .280 average, and a team-best .769 OPS, plus a solid .949 fielding percentage behind the plate.[1][4][12] Monmouth has also praised her as a lineup addition and game-manager at catcher, which makes her a good fit for teams wanting a tough, reliable, defense-minded backstop with sneaky offensive upside.[6][11]
