Clayton Beeter
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| Clayton Beeter | |
|---|---|
| Washington Nationals – No. 39 | |
| Pitcher | |
| Born: October 9, 1998 Fort Worth, Texas, U.S. | |
Bats: Right Throws: Right | |
| MLB debut | |
| March 29, 2024, for the New York Yankees | |
| MLB statistics (through April 21, 2026) | |
| Win–loss record | 1–3 |
| Earned run average | 4.12 |
| Strikeouts | 47 |
| Stats at Baseball Reference | |
| Teams | |
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Clayton Howard Beeter (born October 9, 1998) is an American professional baseball pitcher for the Washington Nationals of Major League Baseball (MLB). He played college baseball for the Texas Tech Red Raiders. The Los Angeles Dodgers selected Beeter in the second round of the 2020 MLB draft, and he made his MLB debut in 2024 with the New York Yankees.
Beeter attended Birdville High School in North Richland Hills, Texas, where he played football and baseball.[1] In 2017, his senior year, he compiled a 0.81 earned run average (ERA) and 106 strikeouts over 55 innings pitched. He also batted .417 with two home runs.[2]
Undrafted in the 2017 Major League Baseball draft, Beeter enrolled at Texas Tech University to play college baseball for the Texas Tech Red Raiders. He suffered an arm injury in the fall of freshman year at Texas Tech, and underwent Tommy John surgery, thus forcing him to miss the 2018 season.[3] He returned healthy as a redshirt freshman in 2019, going 0–3 with a 3.48 ERA over 20+2⁄3 relief innings, striking out forty.[4] In 2020, his redshirt sophomore season, Beeter moved into the starting rotation, and was named the starting pitcher for Texas Tech's season opener.[5] Beeter went 2–1 with a 2.14 ERA over four starts before the college baseball season was cut short due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[6]