McCovey Chronicles · Oct 18, 2023
Player Review: Tristan Beck
2023 stats: 33 G (3 starts), 85 IP, 3.92 ERA, 4.00 FIP, 1.224 WHIP, 19.2% SO%, 5.9% BB%
Of the 83 hits Tristan Beck allowed over the season, 25 of them went for extra-bases (10 HR, 15 2B). 23 of those 25 hits came against a Beck breaking ball.
The sweeper he ironed out, tailored and delivered to Juan Soto on September 1st landed in the bushes just below the batter’s eye. A ho-hum slider to Fernando Tatis had put the Padres up 2-runs in the 1st a batter earlier. A slider down Main Street to Ketel Marte a couple months earlier left the bat at 109 MPH and easily cleared the wall in Oracle’s triple’s alley. All 10 home runs allowed by Beck were off some amorphous ambiguous slider/sweeper shape.