Prospect Review: Missouri

Mizzou has no shortage of good players heading into 2020; this has a real chance to be its best team in a decade. Missouri’s biggest strength in 2020 should be its pitching. Its top six arms should be able to hold their own against anybody in the SEC, and the depth behind that group is exciting.

The Tigers should have another bona fide ace in junior righthander Ian Bedell, who posted a 1.56 ERA in 18 appearances (17 in relief) last year, then posted a 0.58 ERA and a dazzling 36-6 K-BB mark in 30.2 innings as a starter in the Cape Cod League, where he won the Most Outstanding Pitcher award. Bedell is an efficient strike-thrower who should be able to pitch deep into games on a routine bases, taking significant stress off the rest of the staff. He showed advanced feel for a quality four-pitch mix in a four-inning start last Friday in Missouri’s fall world series, sitting at 91-93 mph early and then settling at 90-91, along with an 80-83 slider with hard, late tilt, a solid 78-79 curveball and a nice 80-84 changeup with good arm speed. Bedell has legitimate All-America and Day One draft potential.

The Tigers could structure their staff a number of different ways behind Bedell. Junior lefthander Art Joven certainly has the look of a weekend starter who...

 

 

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