COLUMBIA — When the Missouri baseball team reached its fifth consecutive NCAA Tournament last season, Evan Frey and Brock Bond were as important as any to the team’s success. Batting in the No. 1 and No. 2 spots, they accounted for nearly 30 percent of the Tigers’ runs and were so productive that they each received a phone call on draft day, Frey from the Diamondbacks and Bond from the Giants. Those clubs’ gains were the Tigers’ losses.
Tigers baseball team looks to finalize batting order
After losing Evan Frey and Brock Bond, the Tigers entered the 2008 season with a pair of question marks sitting atop their order. Finding the answers to those questions looked to be the biggest obstacle for a team that returned the middle of its order and
Wednesday, March 19, 2008 | 10:34 p.m. CDT;
updated 6:40 a.m. CDT, Thursday, July 17, 2008
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