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More Honors for B. Beck - JJJ - 07-05-2018

Freshman Brendan Beck was named second-team Freshman All-America by D1 Baseball, as announced Thursday.

Beck, a right-handed pitcher native to Corona, California, was named to the first team. He went 8-0 in 17 appearances, including 12 starts. In 66.2 innings, he finished with a 2.43 ERA while holding opposing batters to a .225 average and issuing just 12 walks. Beck carried a perfect game into the sixth inning of an 11-1 win at Texas on March 11.

It is Beck's fourth freshman All-America honor after earning first-team distinction from Collegiate Baseball Newspaper, NCBWA and Perfect Game, also being named an All-Pac-12 honorable mention.


http://gostanford.com/news/2018/7/5/baseball-more-honors-for-beck.aspx

RE: More Honors for B. Beck - CTcard - 07-06-2018

(07-05-2018, 08:31 PM)JJJ Wrote:  Freshman Brendan Beck was named second-team Freshman All-America by D1 Baseball, as announced Thursday.

Beck, a right-handed pitcher native to Corona, California, was named to the first team.

Oh where has editing gone? 
[The first line was correct, he was second team not first.]


Here is a link to the D1baseball.com announcement of their frosh all America team. 
Frosh AA Team


Their frosh of the year is an interesting choice in several ways. It was Oregon State's Kevin Abel. 
He was the hero of their national title run, and what he did there made this choice fairly clear.


A few things about Abel and OSU pitching this past season. 


- all season long, OSU had trouble finding a third starter. The Beav fans were quite distraught over this - I saw one guy suggesting they simply forfeit all Sunday games. 

- Abel was starting to take over this role towards the end of the season, but hadn't done a lot by the end of the regular season. At the time the regular season ended, he had made 18 appearances, pitched 52.1 innings, had 4 starts, a record of 3-1, and an ERA of 4.15. 

- He did start game #3 of the late season series against us, going 4 innings (and two batters into the fifth), giving up 2 earned runs, giving up 4 hits, 6 walks and hit 2 guys.

- By the end of the regular season you would his profile was pretty much just another guy trying to find his footing in college ball - starting to show some promise. 

- He pitched game 3 of the Regional in Corvalis and dominated LSU. 8 innings, 3 hits, no runs. Never pitched in the Super-Regional.

- Over the first 4 games OSU played in the CWS, he made just one appearance in relief. He pitched well over 4 innings and got the win vs UW. At that point it appeared OSU was going to do their best to get through the CWS with only two starters. 

- However, recently named NCAA Pitcher of the Year, Luke Heimlich, was collapsing in the CWS. He started three games, went 9 innings total, gave up 13 runs, went 0-2 for both of OSU's CWS losses. 

- Over the final 4 games OSU played at the CWS (spanning 5 days), OSU turned to Abel and he dominated. Three appearances, two starts, 3-0, 1 run allowed, 6 hits, 17 innings pitched, 247 pitches.  

- Overall was 4-0 at the CWS, in two starts. He was the first pitcher ever to win 4 games at the CWS, but it was a bit of a statistical oddity in that two wins came in relief. 


Abel was absolutely amazing at the CWS, particularly over his final three appearances. However, there is also a lot of muttering out there that he was seriously overused by Pat Casey (OSU coach). 
This complaint is fairly common about college baseball coaches. 
Back around 2000-ish, Maquess was clearly in the group accused, though in his latter years there were fewer examples of very heavy pitching loads.