{"id":214680,"date":"2026-04-01T16:00:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T16:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/214680\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T16:00:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T16:00:09","slug":"bowen-headlines-buster-posey-award-midseason-watchlist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/214680\/","title":{"rendered":"Bowen Headlines Buster Posey Award Midseason Watchlist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>GAINESVILLE, Fla. \u2013 Florida Gators backstop <a href=\"https:\/\/floridagators.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/karson-bowen\/18092\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"18092\" target=\"_blank\">Karson Bowen<\/a> was among the 50 players named to the Buster Posey National Collegiate Catcher of the Year Award Midseason Watchlist, as announced by the Wichita Sports Commission on Wednesday morning.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nFor Bowen, this is his first time appearing on a Buster Posey Watchlist across his four-year career. Seven catchers from the Southeastern Conference made the 50-man cut.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nStarting 25 games for the Gators this season highlighted by 18 behind the plate, Bowen has fielded at a .996 clip at catcher while throwing out four runners on the base paths. The Anaheim Hills, Calif. native has committed just one error behind the dish across 223 chances.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nOffensively, Bowen has been a mainstay at the clean-up spot in the UF batting order. Through Florida&#8217;s first 30 games of the season, he has slashed .278\/.387\/.444 with three home runs, six doubles, 21 runs scored, 15 RBI and three sacrifice flies. Bowen has drawn nearly as many walks (15) as strikeouts (18) while posting a gaudy .831 OPS in the batter&#8217;s box.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nBowen and the No. 21 Gators host Ole Miss in a three-game SEC series from Thursday, April 2 through Saturday, April 4. Thursday night&#8217;s series opener is scheduled for 6:30 p.m. on SEC Network+. The first 1,000 fans through the gates on Thursday night will receive Florida Baseball quarter zips.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nFollow the Gators<br \/>\n#GoGators<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GatorsBB\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/gatorsbb\/?hl=en\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/GatorsBB\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a><br \/>\n\u00a0<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GAINESVILLE, Fla. \u2013 Florida Gators backstop Karson Bowen was among the 50 players named to the Buster Posey&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":214681,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-214680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214680\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}