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Jalen Beeks: The Red Sox arm you (or nobody) has heard of

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Reimer: Jalen Beeks is the Red Sox' most dominant pitching prospect, and he kind of came out of nowhere

Jalen Beeks Minor & Fall Leagues Statistics & History | Baseball-Reference.com

26 IP
46 K's
1.71 ERA
0.949 WHIP

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In Triple A Pawtucket, lefthander Jalen Beeks continued his ridiculously impressive start to the year, allowing two runs while striking out nine and walking one in 6 2/3 innings. On the year, Beeks has struck out 46 and walked seven in 26 1/3 innings – a 43 percent strikeout rate (15.7 per nine innings) that more often is produced by closers than starters. He leads the minor in strikeouts
 

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You left out that the PawSox lost the game on a walkoff run scored by a prospect everybody's heard of.

:)
 

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Good to see Beeks pitching even better than last year's strong season. 46 K's in 26 innings for a SP is pretty crazy. He's had at least 8 K's in every one of those starts and his two 8 K performances were 4 inning starts.
 

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So wait, the Red Sox are going to actually develop a good starting pitcher? Cool, that's been pretty rare.
 

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So wait, the Red Sox are going to actually develop a good starting pitcher? Cool, that's been pretty rare.

Yeah, there hasn't been a lot of success in that area as of late. Not sure if you can count Eduardo Rodriguez considering he was in the Orioles farm before being traded to the Sox, not to mention he's been held back by injuries. The best SP they've developed since Buchholz/Lester is probably Felix Doubront. Rofl.
 

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Yeah, there hasn't been a lot of success in that area as of late. Not sure if you can count Eduardo Rodriguez considering he was in the Orioles farm before being traded to the Sox, not to mention he's been held back by injuries. The best SP they've developed since Buchholz/Lester is probably Felix Doubront. Rofl.

The Yanks can't say much more. Between Petitte and Severino only Phil Hughes and Ian Kennedy actually managed to have careers as starters. Plenty of quality bull pen arms from the Yanks but starters have been extremely rare.

Then again, the Mets supposedly had tons of great young starters and only DeGrom has worked out. Syndegaard may get back to where he was 2 years ago, Harvey is done, Wheeler sucks and can't stay healthy and Matz also hasn't developed.

Not too many teams have churned out that many good starters.
 

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His dad Clarence has to be looking down and smiling......
 

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Yeah, there hasn't been a lot of success in that area as of late. Not sure if you can count Eduardo Rodriguez considering he was in the Orioles farm before being traded to the Sox, not to mention he's been held back by injuries. The best SP they've developed since Buchholz/Lester is probably Felix Doubront. Rofl.

In other words the list is John Lester. Ouch.
 

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He's getting beat up by some rehabbing Yankees tonight. Went in with a 1.93 ERA, up to 2.58 at this moment.
 

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So wait, the Red Sox are going to actually develop a good starting pitcher? Cool, that's been pretty rare.

He's a short lefty...they don't tend to have a long shelf life anyway.
 

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He's getting beat up by some rehabbing Yankees tonight. Went in with a 1.93 ERA, up to 2.58 at this moment.
hes got good stuff. its like it came out of nowhere tho.

hes literally an accident.
 

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Pawtucket W 5-4

Tzu-Wei Lin, 3B: 0-4, 1 K

Aneury Tavarez, RF: 1-4, 1 HR, 1 R, 1 RBI, 2 K, 1 SB

Sam Travis, LF: 0-4, 3 K

Mike Olt, 1B: 1-3, 1 HR, 1 BB, 2 R, 1 RBI, 1 K

Ramon Flores, DH: 2-3, 1 2B, 1 BB, 1 R, 1 K, 1 SB

Cole Sturgeon, CF: 2-4, 2 2B, 2 RBI, 1 K



Jalen Beeks: 6 IP, 7 H, 4 R, 3 ER, 0 BB, 6 K (95 pitches)

Hector Velazquez: 1 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 1 K (13 pitches)

Austin Maddox: 1 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 4 BB, 1 K (37 pitches)

It says a whole lot about Beeks’ season to this point that I look at this performance and feel that it’s kind of disappointing. Four runs? What’s even the point?! He did allow a couple of home runs so this was a reminder that he can lose his spot once in a while, though he also didn’t walk any batters. It was also nice to see Velazquez back out there dominating, and to see Maddox make another rehab outing. The latter’s didn’t go so well, though. Still, the bullpen is returning to health and it’s going to be interesting to see how it looks in a few weeks.
 

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Yeah, he settled in after a rough 1st inning. Which is impressive in and of itself.
composure is huge

if price goes down, he gets the call IMO
 

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His dad Clarence has to be looking down and smiling......
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3.60 ERA his last 4 starts. hes starting to get figured out i think.

still decent periperals

25 IP
19 H
10 ER
6 BB
28 K

.204 BAA
 

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3.60 ERA his last 4 starts. hes starting to get figured out i think.

still decent periperals

25 IP
19 H
10 ER
6 BB
28 K

.204 BAA

not really worried. he did struggle against Lehigh Valley, but even then you're talking about 4 ER in 6 IP. 80 K's in 56.1 IP from a 24-year-old is pretty damn good.
 

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not really worried. he did struggle against Lehigh Valley, but even then you're talking about 4 ER in 6 IP. 80 K's in 56.1 IP from a 24-year-old is pretty damn good.
yeah, the ERA is a bit inflated. .204 BAA and a .233 Babip over those 4 starts. not bad.

lefty. strikeouts. he'll be up.
 
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