Blake Beavan

Beavan with the Seattle Mariners

Bridgeport Bluefish – No. 36

Starting Pitcher

Born: January 17, 1989 (age 28)
Irving, Texas

Bats: Right

Throws: Right

MLB debut

July 3, 2011, for the Seattle Mariners

MLB statistics

16–20

4.61

137

1.273

Teams

Blake William Beavan (born January 17, 1989) is an American professional baseball pitcher for the Bridgeport Bluefish of the Atlantic League of Professional Baseball. A first-round draft pick in the 2007 MLB Draft by the Texas Rangers, Beavan was traded to the Seattle Mariners in 2010 in a package of prospects for Cliff Lee. In 2011, he made his MLB debut with the Mariners.

Beavan began playing baseball at the age of 5 in the Irving Boys Baseball Association.

Beavan attended Irving High School in Irving, Texas. He was voted the district's freshman of the year in 2004. In 2006, his junior season, he led Irving to the playoffs for the first time since 1999. He had the lowest earned run average (ERA), 0.36, in Class 5A. That year, he played for the United States junior national baseball team and competed in the 2006 World Junior Baseball Championship. He also won Baseball America's 2006 Youth Player of the Year award, as the United States won the silver medal.

In 2007, his senior season in high school, Beavan compiled a 9–2 win–loss record, a 0.19 ERA, and 139 strikeouts in 73 innings pitched, allowing only two earned runs in 11 starts. He threw a perfect game in March 2007. In recognition of his achievements, Beavan was named 2007 Texas high school player of the year. Beavan committed to attend Navarro College, a junior college in Corsicana, Texas, where he intended to play college baseball.