Player review: Tristan Beck

2024 stats: 16 IP, 1.69 ERA (3.98 FIP), 1.13 WHIP, 14 K, 4 BB, 2 HRA, 0.1 fWAR

Tristan Beck’s 2024 season started as a tragedy but ended as a triumph.

Soon after arriving in Arizona for the pitchers & catchers reporting deadline, the then-27 year old was shut down with “right hand discomfort.” Doctors discovered the cause: a blood clot in his throwing arm. That surgery shut him down for eight weeks but it also raised the specter of being a career-ender if not career inhibiting. Every surgery carries a risk, after all.

But modern surgical techniques being what they are, Beck’s recovery and rehab went about as well as one might expect following an aneurysm. He was activated to begin pitching…