Tyler Webb


Jon Tyler Webb is an American professional baseball pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals of Major League Baseball. He made his MLB debut in 2017 for the New York Yankees and has also played for the Milwaukee Brewers and San Diego Padres. Webb played college baseball for the University of South Carolina.

Career

Amateur career

Webb attended Northampton High School in Eastville, Virginia. After graduating from high school, Webb enrolled at the University of South Carolina, where he played college baseball for the South Carolina Gamecocks baseball team. He was a member of the 2010 and 2011 College World Series championship teams. In 2012, his junior year, Webb pitched to a 6–1 win–loss record and a 1.56 earned run average, and recorded 58 strikeouts in innings pitched. Before his senior year, the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association named Webb a second-team preseason All-American. Serving as the Gamecocks' closer, Webb recorded 17 saves in the 2013 season, and was named a third-team All-American by Collegiate Baseball and a second-team All-Southeastern Conference pitcher after the season. He finished his Gamecocks' career with a 2.34 ERA and the record for games pitched.

New York Yankees

The New York Yankees selected Webb in the tenth round, with the 314th overall selection, of the 2013 Major League Baseball draft. The Yankees assigned him to the Staten Island Yankees of the Class A-Short Season New York–Penn League after he signed, but promoted him to the Charleston RiverDogs of the Class A South Atlantic League two weeks later. Over relief innings, he went 3-1 with a 3.31 ERA. Webb began the 2014 season with the Tampa Yankees of the Class A-Advanced Florida State League, and was promoted to the Trenton Thunder of the Class AA Eastern League in May, with whom he was named an Eastern League All-Star. Webb was promoted to the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders of the Class AAA International League following the All-Star break. For the season, Webb went 3–6 with a 3.80 ERA and 12 saves and 94 strikeouts in 48 games and innings pitched.
Webb received a non-roster invitation to spring training with the Yankees in 2015, and opened the season with Scranton/Wilkes-Barre. Due to a tendon injury, he only pitched 38 innings during the season, and the Yankees assigned Webb to the Arizona Fall League after the regular season. In 2016, he pitched for Scranton/Wilkes-Barre, going 4-3 with a 3.59 ERA over innings pitched out of the bullpen.
On December 8, 2016, the Pittsburgh Pirates selected Webb from the Yankees in the Rule 5 draft. He competed for a role with the Pirates during spring training, but did not make the 25-man roster and was returned to the Yankees before the regular season. Webb began the 2017 season with Scranton/Wilkes-Barre.
The Yankees promoted Webb to the major leagues on June 22, 2017, and he made his MLB debut on June 24. He made seven relief appearances for the Yankees, pitching to a 4.50 ERA while striking out five and walking four in six innings.

Milwaukee Brewers and San Diego Padres

On July 13, 2017, the Yankees traded Webb to the Milwaukee Brewers for Garrett Cooper. Following the trade, Webb pitched for Milwaukee and the Colorado Springs Sky Sox of the Class AAA Pacific Coast League. Over two innings with Milwaukee, he gave up two runs, and over 17 games with Colorado, he went 1-2 with a 6.48 ERA. Webb was designated for assignment on April 7, 2018.
On April 14, 2018, Webb was claimed off waivers by the San Diego Padres. He made one appearance for the El Paso Chihuahuas of the PCL before the Padres promoted him to the major leagues.

St. Louis Cardinals

On June 29, 2018, Webb was claimed off waivers by the St. Louis Cardinals and assigned to the Class AAA Memphis Redbirds of the PCL. He was recalled by St. Louis on July 27. In innings pitched for St. Louis, he compiled a 1.76 ERA.
Webb began 2019 with Memphis. He was recalled by the Cardinals for the first time in 2019 on April 7, and optioned back to Memphis on July 11. He was recalled on July 21, finishing the season with St. Louis Over 65 relief appearances during the regular season, he went 2-1 with a 3.76 ERA, striking out 48 over 55 innings.

Personal life

Webb's father, Kirk, pitched in college baseball for Old Dominion University.
Prior to Webb's first promotion to the Yankees, he had never been to a major league game.