Logan Webb


Logan T. Webb is an American professional baseball pitcher for the San Francisco Giants of Major League Baseball. He was drafted by the Giants in the fourth round of the 2014 Major League Baseball draft. He made his MLB debut in 2019.

Early life

Webb attended Rocklin High School in Rocklin, California, where in his senior season he had an 0.49 ERA and struck out 73 batters in 57.2 innings, threw a 96 mph fastball, and earned Bee All-Metro and Cal-Hi Sports All-State honors.

Career

He was drafted by the San Francisco Giants in the fourth round of the 2014 Major League Baseball draft, and signed for a signing bonus of $600,000, above the $440,600 designated by Major League Baseball for where he was drafted. He made his professional debut with the Arizona League Giants, pitching four innings.
Webb played 2015 with the Salem-Keizer Volcanoes where he compiled a 3-6 record with a 4.92 ERA in 14 starts, and 2016 with the Augusta GreenJackets where he went 2-3 with a 6.21 ERA in nine games. In 2016, he underwent Tommy John surgery.
He returned in 2017 with Salem-Keizer, pitching to a 2-0 record with a 2.89 ERA in 28 relief innings pitched. In 2018, Webb pitched for the San Jose Giants and Richmond Flying Squirrels, posting a combined 2-5 record with a 2.41 ERA in 27 games between both teams.
The Giants added Webb to their 40-man roster after the season. He began 2019 with Richmond. On May 1, 2019, Webb was suspended 80 games for testing positive for dehydrochlormethyltestosterone, an anabolic-androgenic steroid.
On August 17, 2019, the Giants promoted Webb to the major leagues. He made his major league debut that night versus the Arizona Diamondbacks, allowing one run while striking out seven batters over five innings. In 2019 in the minor leagues, with four teams he was 2-4 with a 1.85 ERA in 12 games covering innings in which he struck out 69 batters. With the Giants in 2019 he was 2-3 with a 5.22 ERA in 8 starts covering innings in which he struck out 37 batters.