San Francisco Giants Top 10 Prospects for 2017

2. Tyler Beede, RHP

Birthdate: 5/23/93 (23 years old)
Level(s) Played in 2016: AA
Stats in 2016: 147 1/3 IP, 2.81 ERA, 1.28 WHIP, 8.66 BB%, 22.06 K%

The Blue Jays selected Beede 21st overall in 2011, but he chose instead to go to Vanderbilt, where he won the 2014 College World Series. The Giants then made him the 14th overall selection in the 2014 draft.

Beede is a guy that many saw with an elite fastball/change combination and thought he would end up being a reliever, but the Giants have pushed him as a starter, and he has responded well, having a very solid season in 2016 in AA.

Beede had issues with command and control in college, and that led to issues with his curve and keeping the fastball down in the zone, and as he has filled into his 6’3″ frame, he has been able to steady his delivery much better.

Beede works with a pair of fastballs, his four-seam that can touch 97-98 that he can locate throughout the zone but does not have a ton of movement, and his primary fastball, his two-seamer that sits more 90-93 and touches 95, with heavy sink.

He has a lot of fade and sink on his change, which allows it to play very well with the two-seam fastball. His curve is a power curve, but he gets more weak contact than swing-and-miss with the curve.

Beede has the raw stuff to be a front line starter, but his strikeouts will be generated through location and his change, not through his breaking pitch, which does require him to have a strong emphasis on his mechanics.

Beede will start in AAA in 2017, and he should get a start or two in the big leagues by the end of the year.

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