Mizzou Baseball: Pitching Prospect

■ Bowers warms up in the bullpen (Columbia Missourian)

Laurence Bowers tied on borrowed spikes and picked up a loaned glove before climbing onto the pitching rubber in the left-field bullpen at Taylor Stadium.

Both appeared a bit too small for the Missouri basketball team’s elongated junior forward, but he still liked the fit of it all as he began throwing pitches under a bright summer sky Friday.
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Several Missouri baseball players, as well as new MU pitching coach Matt Hobbs, observed the bullpen session and were surprised by what they saw. Hobbs even hinted that Bowers had enough raw tools to pitch effectively at the college level with the right instruction.

If everything goes according to plan on the hardwood, Bowers will never find out. But if it doesn’t …

“Worst-case scenario and basketball doesn’t work out, knock on wood, I think I’d use that fifth year to try to walk on to play that last year,” he said.