The Pirates announced this afternoon that right-hander Tyler Beede has gone unclaimed on waivers after being designated for assignment last week. He’s been assigned outright to Triple-A Indianapolis.
A first-round selection of the Giants in 2014, Beede spent the next few years as one of the most talented prospects in the San Francisco system. He debuted late in the 2018 season and started 22 of 24 outings the following year, pitching to a 5.07 ERA across 117 innings. While he didn’t prevent many runs, Beede averaged north of 94 MPH on his fastball and generated swinging strikes at an 11.2% clip that hinted at a possible long-term future in the San Francisco rotation.
Beede was forced to undergo Tommy John surgery the following March, and he missed the entire 2020 campaign. He spent most of last year on the injured list as well, first recovering from the TJ procedure and then suffering a lower back strain. While he returned to health in 2022, the Giants deployed him just six times out of the bullpen before designating him for assignment. The Pirates nabbed him off waivers and have used him as a multi-inning reliever, but he posted a 5.23 ERA with a below-average 14.8% strikeout rate across 51 2/3 frames.
As a player with more than three years of MLB service, Beede has the right to refuse the outright assignment in favor of free agency. The Pirates didn’t announce whether he’d do so at this point, although it’s likely he’ll hit the open market in the near future either way. Even if Beede accepts this outright assignment, he’d qualify for minor league free agency at the end of the season unless the Pirates add him back to the 40-man roster.
Another “can’t miss” who so far has missed.
In a ten year span, more than 10,000 players will get drafted into a sport with 780 spots.
Virtually all of them miss.
The labels must be taken with appropriate levels of salt given that math.
Who has ever called Tyler Beede “can’t miss”? In fact, who was the last draft pick called “can’t miss”?
When they said Beede was “can’t miss” they forgot to add “bats”.
He was highly hyped in college as a near MLB ready arm.
Expectations were for him to be drafted and in the bigs to stay quickly.
Perhaps the term “can’t miss” wasn’t used, but that’s the profile teams are counting on when they select a guy. Especially as early as Beede was taken.
No “perhaps” about it – teams don’t think or talk that way because that’d be silly. Even # 1’s sometimes fail to figure out the big-leagues and injury alone is an ever-present risk for any athlete.
Being from the same hometown and watching him since Little League, I hope that some team picks him up and he can still have a decent career
The Bucs kept Beede far too long while DFAing probably their best left handed relief pitcher ( Peters) in favor of worthless Eric Stout
Suwinsky needs to be returned to Indianapolis as his strikeouts are sadly increasing and both Shelton and Haines need to be fired
What an embarrassing time to be a Pirates fan
I hate to agree with TheMan but I totally agree with TheMan.
Count me in also as one who totally agrees with TheMan on his comment..
Perfect example of a PIrates screwup.Beede was doing a good job in the bullpen until they got a brilliant idea to make him a starter.Granted,they have no depth,but their bullpen eventually became a vast morass and they could have used him there.Some pitchers just are not starters.
They had relatively yet small success with Peters starting games, unfortunately, and as you said Mendoza, not all pitchers are meant to be starters.
Actually same can be said about those that shouldn’t be coaches or managers
Honestly, if the Pirates put their whole 40 man roster on waivers, how many would be claimed? 10?
They have a lot of young players who,with the proper coaching,could become reasonably good ML players.Probably more like 25-30,although only half would turn out reasonably good.
I had held out some semblance of hope—negligible, at best—until these past two series. Granted, they were playing two WS contenders in a pennant chase but that’s beside the point. Here, in living color, we saw a manager who is clueless in terms of strategies, an apparent lack of learning from kids—or is it lack of instruction—and basically, a lifeless, going-through-the-motions approach from essentially everyone. No fire. No pride. No guts.
What seemed like light at the end of the tunnel, now seems like an endless stream of propaganda about contending in a couple of years
Unless there are guys we haven’t seen on the farm, and unless there is an infusion of instructors who can reach these kids, it’s all more hype
Attendance at PNC Park will with luck reach 1.2 million. 3rd lowest in all of baseball
Nutting has repeatedly said he’ll never increase payroll unless attendance increases.
That’s a two way street, people won’t attend games to watch perennial losers and payroll won’t increase with low attendance
My point, expect next year to be a repeat performance of this year, youngsters trying their best without any significant coaching changes and washed up, dumpster diving players filling up the 40 man roster
Tired-Your last paragraph hits the mark.They need to make big changes like NH was finally going to do but too little too late.
Let’s not forget though that the best coaches usually go to the best( richest) organizations because they want to win.
I gave up on them a month ago.
The definition of stupidity is doing the same thing over and over again thinking that the result will change.Will Crowe is not a closer.Throw some of the young ones into the fire.You never know what you might find.
They have been winning at the same % over the last 98 games as they did in 2020.
What you see is them giving up because losing breeds losing.This has really occurred only over the last month.It is human nature.
The credibility of the whole organization including ownership will be shown within three days after the end of the regular season to see what they do with Shelton and Haines.This is certainly not all Shelton’s fault but major changes need to be done or BC is next to go.
Great guy, but he had one great year in college which he rode on…but never could never find consistency on his pitches and tended to walk batters too much.
I hope he finds that consistency soon but at his age, he may need to look to what is life after pitching — wonder if coaching or another route is for him.
The pirates with Red Shelton do not do the basics….it’s not the players, it’s Shelton and the coaching staff.
Basics include
Bunting
Hit and run
Moving runners up
Stolen bases
Knowing how to run the bases
Sound fundamentals are missing, not only with the pirates but a lot of teams
Sad
Buuba-I do not necessarily disagree with you but much of this should be taught and registered by the time that he gets the players.He is not in control of that the GM is.That being said he seems to just accept it and does not penalize anyone.
Like Joe Geraldi,they probably would be doing him a favor to fire him.
What I’m saying is that Shelton does not use any of the basics in games…to me he is nothing but a ceremonial cheer leader.
Why doesn’t he just wave pompoms in the dugout.
Sure you learn these basics as a kid and in organizations
But if the manager doesn’t employ them in game situations….then as a manager he’s a failure.
And his handling of pitchers is .like a juggler juggling ten pins
Buuba, you’re definitely old school and I applaud your views here. Exactly. Game in and game out, you see it
To me at least, the age of analytics made the basics of the game obsolete. All those basics you list did were to manufacture wins
I’ll add one thing about Shelton that numbs the mind. He’s fine with not lifting a left handed batter who will be facing a tough left handed pitcher late in the game. Or sticking with a batter who has had 3 weak at bats when he’s got guys on the bench who may at least be able to lift a fly ball with a runner at 3rd
Just how many bases loaded, or runners at 2nd and 3rd with no outs or one out that result in no runs do we have to see?
Would like to see them give O’Reilly a shot from AAA. What’s the difference at this point. I also thought Wilson was a good move but he is a AAA pitcher.
Wilson’s last game against the Mets was the last straw for me. He even managed to confound whomever was doing the color analysis
He works around Vogelbach to puts runners at 1st and 3rd and then tries a dead red fastball which gets launched for a 3-run dong
Against Escobar, a guy who mashes Pirates pitching
Here’s a staff that seems to love throwing fastballs down main street and with no ability to master spin and off speed pitches
Is there any learning going on?
Tired- No.
Well, thanks to Shelton, Crowe, who used to be a good set-up/eight inning pitcher, has been ruined. He did it to Beene and other pitchers, he’ll keep doing it till he is fired.
Pirates need to hire Neal Huntington as a special assistant to BC. Huntington had many faults but he could put together a good bullpen year after year.
Now that Shelton has ruined Beede’s career, he’s busy trying to ruin Crowe’s.
Crowe is overused and worthless now as a relief pitcher