Braden Webb
Braden Allen Webb is an American professional baseball pitcher for the Milwaukee Brewers organization.Career
Webb attended Owasso High School in Owasso, Oklahoma. He played for the school's baseball team and committed to attend the University of South Carolina to play college baseball for the South Carolina Gamecocks. He was also considered a top prospect in the 2014 Major League Baseball draft. Owasso's baseball team went undefeated in 2013, his junior year, and Webb had a 1.98 earned run average.
In 2014, his senior year, Webb began the baseball season with two no-hitters, but was injured in his third start and required Tommy John surgery. He went unselected in the 2014 draft, but USC followed through with his college scholarship. He missed the rest of the 2014 season and all of 2015 while recovering. The Cleveland Indians selected Webb in the 38th round, with the 1,144th overall selection, of the 2015 MLB draft, but Webb did not sign, and pitched for the Gamecocks in 2016. He had a 10-6 win-loss record, a 3.09 ERA, and 128 strikeouts in 102 innings pitched. The National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association named him their Freshman of the Year.
The Milwaukee Brewers selected Webb in the third round, with the 82nd overall selection, of the 2016 MLB draft. He signed with Milwaukee. He pitched for the Wisconsin Timber Rattlers of the Class A Midwest League in 2017, going 6-7 with a 4.36 ERA 22 games. He began the 2018 season with the Carolina Mudcats of the Class A-Advanced Carolina League, and was promoted to the Biloxi Shuckers of the Class AA Southern League in August. In 25 games between the two clubs, he compiled a 6-8 record with a 3.80 ERA.
