Clayton Beeter

Beeter made the opening day roster, but was quickly sent down to work in the Triple-A rotation after his only appearance out of the pen. Beeter struck out 44 batters in 32 innings of work, holding the opposition to a .153/.286/.225 line until a shoulder injury put him on the injured list for nearly four months. Beeter worked exclusively as a reliever upon his return in September, picking up where he left off, striking out 17 of the 35 batters he faced between Somerset, Scranton and in the majors. The move to the pen appears to be only a temporary thing to fit both his recovery timetable as well as a need the club had down the stretch. Beeter should be one of the names we see called up during the season, should the rotation need to cover for injuries or if the club decides to covert him into the role Luke Weaver so nicely filled last year as a multiple-inning weapon out of the pen. Either way, anyone with a 33.2 percent career strikeout rate and a 20.5 percent K-BB percentage over three seasons of minor league work deserves some attention in the later rounds of draft-and-hold leagues or deeper mono leagues.