{"id":53447,"date":"2025-05-06T21:31:19","date_gmt":"2025-05-06T21:31:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=53447"},"modified":"2025-05-06T21:31:19","modified_gmt":"2025-05-06T21:31:19","slug":"yankees-long-forgotten-prospect-showing-signs-of-dominance-once-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=53447","title":{"rendered":"Yankees Long-Forgotten Prospect Showing Signs of Dominance Once Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"post-featured-container-id\">\n<div id=\"post-featured\">\n<div>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Brendan-Beck.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=780\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 820px) 95vw, 780px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Brendan-Beck.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=780 780w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Brendan-Beck.jpg?quality=15&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1100 1100w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Brendan-Beck.jpg?quality=35&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1350 1350w\" alt=\"Yankees Long-Forgotten Prospect Showing Signs of Dominance Once Again\" width=\"780\" height=\"439\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Getty<\/p>\n<p>New York Yankees pitcher Brendan Beck<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">To borrow a phrase from the great Mark Twain, reports of <\/span>Brendan Beck <span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u2019s death have obviously been greatly exaggerated.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">A second-round pick for the <\/span>New York Yankees <span data-contrast=\"auto\"> in 2021, Beck had team officials downright giddy about his potential. Beck was a <\/span>four-year starting pitcher at Stanford University <span data-contrast=\"auto\">, where he went 22-10 with a 3.11 ERA and 289 strikeouts in 289.1 innings. <\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u201cWe think he could be really close,\u201d Damon Oppenheimer, vice-president and director of amateur scouting for the New York Yankees,\u00a0<\/span>said a day after the draft <span data-contrast=\"auto\">. \u201cThere\u2019s not a lot that has to happen with him. There\u2019s not a lot of development that has to go in. He just probably needs to build up innings. \u2026 We think we\u2019re getting a high-end starter.\u201d<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The <\/span>pre-draft scouting report <span data-contrast=\"auto\"> on the 6-foot-2, 218-pound right-hander from La Jolla, CA, indicated that while not overpowering, Beck was an athlete with an uncanny \u201cfeel\u201d for the art of pitching.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u201cHe has impressive command of four pitches, stays on the attack and is exceptionally poised on the mound,\u201d the report read. \u201cHis mid-80s changeup is an above-average pitch he is comfortable throwing to righties or lefties in any count, his low-80s slider is an average offering that gets swings and misses and his curveball is a usable fourth offering in the upper 70s. He effectively mixes his pitches to keep hitters guessing and ties everything together with above-average control. Beck is rarely fazed on the mound and has a tendency to step up in big moments. He is a good athlete with a strong, durable frame and lasts deep into his starts. Beck\u2019s velocity uptick has pushed him into top-three rounds consideration for some teams. He projects as a back-of-the-rotation starter who has a chance to be more.\u201d<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">And that may still be the case, just not as quickly as originally hoped.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>Brendan Beck\u2019s Path to MLB Derailed by Multiple Surgeries<\/h2>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Soon after he was drafted, Beck was <\/span>diagnosed with a torn UCL <span data-contrast=\"auto\"> and needed Tommy John surgery, which delayed the start of his professional career for nearly two years. When he did finally take the mound for High-A Hudson Valley in June to August of 2023, Beck got the organization\u2019s optimism rolling once again, posting a 1.74 ERA over 31.0 innings pitched, with 35 strikeouts and seven walks.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u201cBeck\u2019s surgery stopped him from being the fast riser the Yankees thought they were acquiring, but he remains a plus arm,\u201d wrote Adam Weinrib of the New York-focused FanSided site Yanks Go Yard. \u201cThe road might look different, but the player appears to be the same. Expect that rapid rise in 2024 and a potential big-league chance the next season, if New York is able to hold onto him.\u201d<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">But the injury bug would bite Beck again, and he was put on the \u201c<\/span>full-season injured list <span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u201d for all of 2024 after undergoing another surgical procedure on his elbow prior to spring training. At that point, it seemed overly optimistic to continue projecting Beck as a future member of the Yankees rotation.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>Brendan Beck Earns League Honors in First Weeks of Comeback Attempt<\/h2>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">However, four starts into the 2025 season, Beck once again is flashing his dominance on the mound.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Now pitching for Double-A Somerset, Beck is 2-0 with a 0.93 ERA, allowing just 10 hits and three walks with 19 strikeouts in 19.1 innings. He was particularly nasty in his second start of the season, pitching six hitless and scoreless innings with five strikeouts in <\/span>a 6-1 win <span data-contrast=\"auto\"> over the Altoona Curve on April 15, and Beck was named <\/span>the Eastern League Pitcher of the Week <span data-contrast=\"auto\"> for games played April 14-20.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u201cHe doesn\u2019t have great [velocity], but he can get it up to 93, 94 when he needs to,\u201d said Ryan Garcia of <\/span>the Fireside Yankees podcast <span data-contrast=\"auto\">. \u201cGood vertical ride on the pitch, good slider, good changeup, good curveball. I\u2019m really excited for Beck, and I think that he\u2019s someone who the Yankees should get to Triple-A soon.\u201d<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Which obviously would be a welcome move for Beck, but he is just happy to be pitching anywhere again.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u201cI kind of take the results and throw them out the window at this point,\u201d <\/span>Beck said recently <span data-contrast=\"auto\">. \u201cJust getting back on the field has been great. That\u2019s my main focus. That\u2019s what all the work has been for.\u201d<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Dave Benson Dave Benson is a longtime writer with over three decades of experience in a variety of mediums, including 15 years covering high school, collegiate and minor league sports in the St. Louis metropolitan area. Dave is also a licensed English teacher and spent a few years teaching at the middle school level. More about Dave Benson<\/p>\n<h2>More Heavy on Yankees News<\/h2>\n<p>Loading more stories<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pitcher Brendan Beck, the New York Yankees second-round pick in 2021, has an impressive start after missing 2024 due to elbow surgery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":53448,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mlb"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Yankees Long-Forgotten Prospect Showing Signs of Dominance Once Again - NEWS USA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=53447\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Yankees Long-Forgotten Prospect Showing Signs of Dominance Once Again - 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