Matt Bowman is no stranger to being the new guy in a clubhouse trying to find his way. His MLB.com transaction log — which details every career move dating to signing with the New York Mets on June 15, 2012 — is 95 entries long.
“I’m sneaky old,” the 33-year-old pitcher said.
The Orioles are his fourth big league team this season, and he debuted at Camden Yards on Thursday night with a scoreless 1 1/3 innings of relief in a 6-0 loss to the Houston Astros. Over the past five months, he’s pitched out of the bullpen for Minnesota, Arizona and Seattle sandwiching minor league stints. As a baseball journeyman, Bowman has learned a thing or two about starting fresh somewhere.
“Sometimes you want to do what the [organization] values and you kind of turn yourself into that,” said the Princeton graduate with an economics degree. “I think realizing what your individual identity is, is something that I’ve learned. And then, if you want to try and blend yourself into what they want, you have to merge those two roads but you can’t hop over to their road immediately.”
