I wonder if Samuel Basallo and Dylan Beavers know how much is riding on their success. If they don’t succeed, it will be added to the failures of Jackson Holliday, Adley Rutschman and Coby Mayo. Plus, Kyle Stowers needing to go to another team to ignite into something, and whatever happened to Gunnar and Westburg last year. At that point, Orioles’ entire system will be considered a failure and they will have rebuilt for nothing. Sung like Turned Down For What, “Rebuilt for nothing!” Shirts reading “Rebuilt for nothing,” might not sell as well as that one Etsy seller thinks, who is designing them. I haven’t bought any shirts from Orioles Hater 4 You on Etsy but I’m considering, “Rebuilt for Nothing!” and “The Ripkens were Al Qaeda.” Okay, okay, I’m being a hater, Gunnar and Westburg were injured and will be fine; Holliday can still connect; Basallo looks dope; Stowers was great but traded for an excellent (last year) Trevor Rogers; Beavers seems solid; Adley always sucked, and maybe Mayo still emulsifies the ball–excuse me, creams. Today, we’re dealing with Dylan Beavers, who looks like every ex-boyfriend of every friend, who is a girl. If you go to Razzball dot com, you can see his headshot from college when he was at UC Berkeley, where he went 35/17 in 424 ABs across two seasons, at the age of 19 and 20. Ancient history now. O’s drafted him in 2022 and away we go. Itch said earlier this year, “Beavers has been excellent for most of the season, but he’s kicked into a higher gear around mid-June. Beavers is a 6′ 5″, 206-pound lumberjack, who was the 33rd overall pick in the 2022 draft and that he looks more than ready for the next step, and I’d like to step on Grey’s head.” Not cool. So, what can we expect from Dylan Beavers for 2026 fantasy baseball?
Dylan Beavers hit his first MLB home run off Jason Alexander. What’s the opposite of shrinkage? That’s this ball:
Dylan Beavers’ first career homer was a no-doubter ? pic.twitter.com/QynZNczxBx
— MLB (@MLB) August 21, 2025
Here’s one more, but there’s plenty:
Dylan Beavers walks it off for the @Orioles! pic.twitter.com/kxkn5lgh4Q
— MLB (@MLB) September 25, 2025
Dylan Beavers is giving Cody Bellinger. You know what else I’m annoyed about, right? Same thing I’m annoyed about for every young, lefty hitter: platoons. Freakin’ platoons, man! Similar to Michael J. Fox after Casualties of War, an underrated gem, and he was like, “Freakin’ Platoon’s, man, getting all the buzz!” I hear ya, MJ! Beavers can’t hit lefties, supposedly, but, I don’t know, maybe if you gave him a chance? Haha, how foolish of me! Of course, he won’t get a chance vs. lefties!
So, Dylan Beavers went 18/23/.304 in 342 ABs in Triple-A and 4/2/.227 in limited 110 ABs on the majors. (Just squeezed in under wire for rookie eligibility.) He’s 24 and beyond ready. In Triple-A, he had a 16.3 BB% and 18.2 K% and 19% walk rate in the majors in those 110 ABs. That’s so funny. He really is Cody Bellinger. He’s about to be a .400 OBP as a rookie. In Triple-A, he had a 20.8% chase rate and 18.7% in the majors. Of course, Juan Soto’s the best on not chasing. His rate last year was only 16.2%. Beavers nearly matching The King of Not Swinging. 18.7% would’ve been 4th best in the majors. As a 24-year-old! I almost wonder if Beavers isn’t aggressive enough. Buck up, Beavers, and stop building dental dams in your mind.
Dylan Beavers’s projections systems seem to hate him, but they usually hate all rookies. Actually, they hate everyone. Leave us alone, projections systems, with your negativity! If Beavers can cut his K% to 24% and walks ~12%, then I don’t know how he hits under .250. If he jumps on fastballs like he was in the minors, then I don’t see how he hits less than 17 dongers in a full season. Did I mention he also stole 23 bags in Triple-A last year? I did? Well, how about again? Don’t dare me into repeating it a third time. There’s an outside chance we do get the projections systems’ Beavers — hey now! — and he goes 10/10/.240 in 100 games, but that seems absurdly low. Give him 415 ABs and let him do a sweet almost 20/20 with upside, meaning he could be 25/25/.275 and what you wanted from Michael Harris II for the last what, six years? Okay, maybe not that, but speed/power rules. For 2026 fantasy, I’ll give Dylan Beavers projections of 52/17/63/.256/15 in 411 ABs with a chance for more.
