Tyler Daschiel Herron (August 5, 1986 – October 22, 2021) was an American right-handed professional baseball pitcher.
[2] As a senior for the Wellington Wolverines, Herron led the nation with a 0.25 ERA, and struck out 81 batters in 57 innings.
[5] He was named to the 2005 ABCA/Rawlings High School All-America Second Team, along with among others future major leaguers Ike Davis and Scott Van Slyke.
[7] He began his professional career in 2005 with the Johnson City Cardinals of the Rookie Appalachian League, going 0–3 in 13 starts with a 5.62 ERA and 49 strikeouts in 49+2⁄3 innings as he kept opponents to a .245 batting average.
[9] The following season, pitching for Johnson City, on August 13, 2006, Herron was voted Appalachian League Pitcher of the Week.
[2] In June 2007, pitching for the Single–A Swing of the Quad Cities, Herron was named Cardinals Minor League Pitcher of the Month.
[1] For the season he was 10–7 with a 3.74 ERA, and in 137+1⁄3 innings gave up 26 walks while he had 130 strikeouts (6th in the league) as he kept opponents to a .240 batting average.
[9] Pitching for the High–A Palm Beach Cardinals, on August 4, 2008, Herron was voted Florida State League Pitcher of the Week.
[1] For the season for the team, he was 2–2 with a 2.70 ERA in 15 starts, and in 56+2⁄3 innings he gave up 11 walks as he kept opponents to a .234 batting average.
[9] In 2010, Herron pitched for the Kalamazoo Kings in the independent Frontier League, primarily as a reliever, throwing between 89 and 93 mph with his fastball, and was 1-3 with three saves and a 3.50 ERA.
[17] On December 7, 2012, the Washington Nationals signed Herron as a free agent to a minor league contract.
With the Harrisburg Senators of the Double–A Eastern League, he was 6–2 with five saves and a 3.11 ERA as he struck out 58 batters in 46+1⁄3 innings and kept opponents to a .247 batting average.
[1] Pitching for the Indios de Mayagüez in the winter of 2013, in the Puerto Rico Liga de Béisbol Profesional Roberto Clemente, in 19 games (third in the league) in relief Herron was 1–0 with 12 saves and a 0.84 ERA (leading the league, for all pitchers with 20 or more innings pitched).
[18] In 2016, Herron returned to Fargo-Moorhead, and led the American Association with a 0.80 ERA in 56 innings in which he walked 12 batters, had a 5–1 record with two shutouts, and held opponents to a .161 batting average.
[26] Herron re-signed with the Fargo-Moorhead RedHawks of the American Association on June 20, 2017, and logged a 9-3 record with three complete games and an ERA of 2.92.
[27] On January 30, 2018, Herron was traded to the Lincoln Saltdogs of the American Association of Independent Professional Baseball.
In 2020 for the Canaries, Herron posted a 7-1 record with one complete game and a 4.60 ERA in 76+1⁄3 innings, while also serving as the team’s bench coach.
[18] In total, at all levels he pitched 16 seasons facing 7,323 batters, had a record of 103-95 with 38 saves and a 4.10 ERA, and 1,420 strikeouts in 1701+2⁄3 innings.