Clemson Baseball: Seth Beer Expected to Make Diamondbacks

Unless something changes unexpectedly it appears former Clemson baseball legend Seth Beer will make the Arizona Diamondbacks out of spring training.

Beer, a 2017 first round draft pick of the Houston Astros, made his Major League debut with the Diamondbacks last fall, hitting a homerun in his first MLB at-bat.

Beer had a fantastic spring with the big club batting .393 with a home run and 6 RBI in 28 at bats at the time of this writing in the abbreviated spring schedule.

In 9 at bats last season Beer had 4 hits for a .444 average and the home run before being injured.

Beer hit .322 with 56 home runs and 177 RBI in 188 games at Clemson and his name and number is etched in the outfield wall.

Selected by the Astros with the 28th overall pick in 2017, Beer was traded to the Diamondbacks with three other players in return for Zack Greinke in 2019 at the trade deadline.

At the time the trade was thought to be curious because Beer was considered a player without a position and destined to be a designated hitter, which was not a thing for National League teams such as the Diamondbacks.

Beer has been working some at first base and, luckily for Beer and the Diamondbacks part of the newly agreed upon Collective Bargaining Agreement provides for the Designated Hitter in both leagues, thereby providing an opportunity for Beer for more at-bats and less of a need for him to find a position.

Either way, the trade turned out to be a fortuitous one for the Clemson product as superstar Kyle Tucker is likely ensconced for a decade in right field in Houston, while young phenom Yordan Alvarez has a stranglehold on the DH role for the foreseeable future for the Astros.

Beer now has an opportunity at the big league level to show what he can do.