{"id":16168,"date":"2012-03-25T18:13:00","date_gmt":"2012-03-26T01:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/?p=16168"},"modified":"2014-03-05T12:42:52","modified_gmt":"2014-03-05T20:42:52","slug":"former-usa-jr-mens-player-bids-for-roster-spot-with-boston-red-sox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/?p=16168","title":{"rendered":"Former USA Jr. Men&#8217;s player bids for roster spot with Boston Red Sox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Cap tip Tim Lyon, USA Jr. Men&#8217;s head coach.  See photos from Mike&#8217;s USA Jr. Men&#8217;s playing days, in 2005, courtesy of Tim Lyon.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Michael Bowden was a member of the 2005 USA Jr. Men&#8217;s team that played in the 2005 ISC Junior World Championship at Prince Edward Island.  Now, at age 25, he is bidding for a spot on the Boston Red Sox roster.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read story at MLB:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/boston.redsox.mlb.com\/news\/article.jsp?ymd=20120323&#038;content_id=27539632&#038;vkey=news_bos&#038;c_id=bos\">Bowden&#8217;s time to help might finally be here.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>Editor&#8217;s note: <\/strong>It appears that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/?p=15739\">Major League Baseball has discovered the fastpitch talent pipeline<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_16175\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16175\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Bowden-7.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Bowden-7-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Bowden 7\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-16175\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Bowden-7-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Bowden-7.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-16175\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michael Bowden, USA Jr. Men, 2005 (click to enlarge)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_16181\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16181\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Mike-Bowden-hitting.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Mike-Bowden-hitting-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Mike Bowden hitting\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-16181\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Mike-Bowden-hitting-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Mike-Bowden-hitting.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-16181\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michael Bowden, 2005 USA Jr. Men (click to enlarge)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cap tip Tim Lyon, USA Jr. Men&#8217;s head coach. See photos from Mike&#8217;s USA Jr. Men&#8217;s playing days, in 2005, courtesy of Tim Lyon. Michael Bowden was a member of the 2005 USA Jr. Men&#8217;s team that played in the 2005 ISC Junior World Championship at Prince Edward Island. Now, at age 25, he is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16175,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,19],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-16168","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-asa","8":"category-players","9":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16168"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22859,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16168\/revisions\/22859"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}