The D-backs have agreed to a minor league contract with first baseman/outfielder Matt Beaty, as famous on the transaction log at MiLB.com. Beaty is now listed on the roster for Arizona’s Double-A affiliate in Amarillo.
Beaty, 31, is making his rounds by way of the Nationwide League West, having been drafted/developed by the Dodgers, who then traded him to the Padres in 2022. He additionally received into 4 video games with the Giants final season, so the Snakes might be his fourth NL West membership if he reaches the MLB degree at any level.
In 675 massive league plate appearances relationship again to 2019, Beaty is a .247/.323/.394 hitter with 18 homers, a 16.7% strikeout price and a 7% stroll price price. A lot of the former Twelfth-round choose’s manufacturing got here throughout a 2021 displaying with the Dodgers that noticed him publish a hearty .270/.363/.402 line in 234 journeys to the plate. Beaty has struggled mightily since that point, hitting simply .173/.277/.240 in a small pattern of 119 plate appearances between the Padres, Giants and Royals.
Along with final 12 months’s sparse massive league work, Beaty spent 44 video games in Triple-A between Omaha (Royals) and Sacramento (Giants), slashing a mixed .279/.395/.455. That degree of manufacturing is par for the course for Beaty within the higher minors. He’s performed in components of 5 Triple-A seasons and sports activities a .287/.386/.421 line total, thanks largely to wonderful contact expertise (15% strikeout price) and a eager eye on the plate (9.2% stroll price).
The Diamondbacks have been one among baseball’s least-productive groups towards right-handed pitching, which the left-handed-hitting Beaty handles much better than he does fellow southpaws. D-backs hitters have logged a mixed .224/.308/.357 towards righties, sitting twenty fifth within the majors by measure of wRC+ (92).
Joc Pederson has completely feasted on right-handed pitching, whereas Christian Walker and Gabriel Moreno have supplied robust on-base marks towards right-handers. Nevertheless, the D-backs have obtained poor manufacturing towards righties from veteran Lourdes Gurriel Jr. and much more surprisingly from lefty-swinging Corbin Carroll, whose total output on the plate this season has been shockingly anemic. Lefty bench bat Pavin Smith has struggled as nicely and (barring a turnaround) would seemingly be probably the most in danger if Beaty reveals nicely within the minors. Any such determination is probably going a methods off, nevertheless. Beaty hasn’t performed but this season — his Instagram reveals he and his spouse welcomed a baby halfway by way of the offseason whereas he was a minor league free agent — and he’ll presumably want a while to ramp up earlier than he’d even be thought-about a giant league possibility.