The Guardians sent right-hander Tyler Beede outright to Triple-A Columbus, according to his transactions tracker at MLB.com. That indicates he cleared waivers after being designated for assignment last week. He has the right to elect free agency but it’s not yet clear if he’s chosen to do so.
Beede, 31 this month, made it back to the big leagues after spending 2023 in Japan. He signed a minor league deal with the Guardians and cracked the Opening Day roster by throwing 13 innings in Spring Training with a 4.15 earned run average.
Unfortunately, the regular season results weren’t there for him, despite a strong 26.5% strikeout rate. He allowed 13 earned runs in 14 innings, leading to an ERA of 8.36. There was a bit of bad luck in there, as he wouldn’t sustain a .389 batting average on balls in play nor a 55.6% strand rate over a larger sample. But he also didn’t do himself any favors with a 13.2% walk rate. His 5.00 FIP was better than his ERA but still not great, though his 3.78 SIERA was quite optimistic.
Once a top prospect with the Giants, Beede struggled to cement himself in the big leagues from 2018 to 2022, exhausting his option years in the process. That means he is now out of options and can’t be easily sent down to the minors. He was bumped off the Guardians’ 40-man recently and the other 29 clubs all passed on the chance to grab him off waivers.
All players with at least three years of service time or a previous career outright have the right to reject outright assignments, electing free agency instead. Beede qualifies on both counts and could head to the open market if he so chooses.
Great now they can sign Bauer
Trevor Bauer will never again play Major League Baseball. It’s time for people to accept that and move on with their lives.
Maybe that’s the problem.
If the publicly available info on his pitches and avg velocity and all that is accurate he should sign with the Brewers, they’ll have him pitching 5+ innings giving up 4 or less in no time.
Another quality pick by the Giants.
First… I was basketball teammates with Tyler when I was in 10th grade and he was in 8th on JV haha so I wish him the best. still follow his career and it’s too bad things haven’t gone better but best of luck!
Second… I was talking to someone the other day about his situation… I’m not sure bbref is right but if they are he locked in a $1.2M salary for 2024 season. Given he doesn’t have much ML service would he lose the $ if he were to elect FA?
I know there’s some sort of rule about that but am not 100% sure how it works.
Yeah, I forget what the service time threshold is for keeping salary upon electing free agency. He has 3+ years of service time going into the season, per FanGraphs. I suspect the author would’ve mentioned it if his salary were more substantial.
From what I understand as it relates to minor league free agents who have their contracts selected, their salaries (in this case, $1.2 million) are prorated for any time they spend in the majors. The MLB season is recognized as 187 days, so when you factor in the 35 or so days that he was on the roster, he would have earned somewhere in the neighborhood of $220-230,000.
I don’t think the Guardians are on the hook for the rest of what his salary would have been (although I could be wrong), so he wouldn’t have to risk forfeiting any further money if he were to reject an outright assignment.