Just like their contrasting paths to the majors, the identical twins are finding success in different ways this year.
Chatfield alums Tyler and Taylor are in their first season together on the San Francisco Giants and checked off another pie-in-the-sky feat this week with a three-game series at Coors Field, where they admitted their intertwined baseball lives feel more like dream than reality.
Taylor was a highly-regarded prep prospect who earned a Division I scholarship to Kentucky. Tyler, meanwhile, wasn’t a full-time varsity player for Chatfield until his senior year. Even then, he only pitched in four games with a 7.54 ERA. So while Taylor went to play in the SEC, Tyler went to Garden City Community College with a career in firefighting on his mind.
Tyler went from Garden City to Austin Peay, where he set the school record for saves as a junior, then broke the NCAA Division I single-season record with 23 saves as a senior. That led to the Giants drafting him in the 10th round in 2013. He debuted six years later after spending the better part of three years in Triple-A.
“After Taylor’s sophomore year, it seemed like out of nowhere he picked up about eight miles an hour on his fastball, and suddenly he was throwing in the middle to upper 80s,” Yansak recalled. “He sort of jumped ahead of his brother during that junior year. But Tyler continued to develop, even though he never had the same velocity.
In San Francisco’s bullpen, Taylor’s brought the veteran presence, while Tyler has become one of the best relievers in the National League. While they’ve learned how to handle the moment on the mound, they still both get antsy when the other pitches.
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