Prospect Profile: Josh Beal

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Name: Josh Beal
Date of Birth: 10/21/1987
Height: 6'2"
Weight: 220 lbs.
Bats: right
Throws: right
Position: relief pitcher
Team: GCL Reds
Number: 61
Draft: 44th round (#1310 overall) by Cincinnati Reds in 2007 amateur draft
School: Independence Community College
Bio: Josh Beal comes from a baseball family and attended high school in Owasso, Oklahoma. He is the grandson of former St. Louis Cardinal Bob Blaylock (whose promising career was shortened by a rotator cuff injury). In addition to Blaylock, he is related to Cardinals' first round draft pick Pete Kozma and Angels 2006 14th round draft pick Chris Armstrong, who is currently in rookie ball.

Josh Beal's myspace

According to his myspace page, one of his heroes is Albert Pujols, he thinks all books stink, he earns more than $250,000 per year, and he is a Chippendale dancer.

Stats as of July 28th, 2007:

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Team    W L  ERA G GS SV  IP  H  R  ER HR BB SO
GCL Reds 0 0 0.87 9  0  1 10.1  9  2  1  0  3 11

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Does happen to have a sister named Jessica?

Not that I'm aware. Feel free to ask him on Myspace, though. While you're at it, ask him if he's related to Ally McBeal.

Josh Beal endured a three-game stretch in which he allowed six earned runs and five walks over three innings. He picked up a save yesterday, so hopefully he's back on track.

Since Beal just made his 2009 debut (two innings of shutout relief), I thought this would be a good time to bump this up. Josh has already done much more than what you would expect out of a 44th round draft pick. Keep it up, Josh!

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        W L  ERA  G GS GF SV  IP  H  R ER HR BB SO WHIP
Career        2 6 3.60 46  0 30  3 55.0 53 26 22  2 23 73 1.38

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Those are some goofy looking girls with Big Red

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Originally Posted by JayBruceFan

Those are some goofy looking girls with Big Red

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I believe at least one of them is family. The picture is from a couple years ago, so I'm guessing they look a bit less goofy now.

True Creature II!!!

They are his cousins!!!

I just made an interesting observation. Josh Beal is the youngest player in the entire Reds organization who has played in AA or higher.