Third round: pick 76:
Drew Beam, RHP, Tennessee
No. 64 in MLB.com
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Beam helped Tennessee win its first College World Series using largely average stuff across the board with a fastball that sits 93-95 mph, a low-80s curve with depth and a solid cutter. He throws all for strikes and gets a lot of ground-ball contact.
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And from Keith Law:
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Beam is a four-pitch command right-hander with nothing plus but who throws a ton of strikes and can be effective as long as he has all of his pitches — I saw him struggle against Georgia because his changeup was much too firm that night. He’s 92-95 with his four-seamer and pounds the zone with it, and because it rides up it plays off the changeup and vice versa. He’s got an average curveball and a 55 cutter that may end up his best pitch in the long run, although in the postseason he largely ditched it and went heavy on the fastball/curve. He’s also got a little more room to fill out and could find another gear of velocity on the four-seamer and the cutter. Because he’s not very physical right now, I was concerned about him wearing down, but Tennessee used him much more carefully in Omaha, taking him out twice when he was pitching well and had thrown just 70-80 pitches. He’s a back-end starter type with a modest chance for something more.
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