Missouri State head coach Keith Guttin was straight up with Spencer Nivens heading into the fall of his redshirt freshman year — there was only one spot open and he was going to have to beat out three others if he was going to make the Bears' baseball team.
"I put that on my mirror," Nivens said. "I just had to use that as motivation every day to come in and work."
Nivens literally put words on his mirror for him to look at every morning. The star high school player at Rock Bridge who would have owned every offensive record if the pandemic didn't cancel his senior season was suddenly facing the possibility of getting cut.