The Cubs and right-hander Tyler Beede have agreed to a minor league deal, reports Ari Alexander of 7News Boston. The ACES client will presumably be invited to big league camp in spring training.
Beede, 33 in May, has had a uniquely winding career but is not coming off a good year. He signed a minor league deal with the Twins in April of 2025. He made seven appearances for Triple-A St. Paul but allowed eight earned runs in nine innings via 12 hits and nine walks while striking out seven opponents. He was released in June and then landed a deal with the Long Island Ducks of the independent Atlantic League. He posted a 5.48 ERA for the Ducks and then signed with the Diablos Rojos in the Mexican League. He posted a 7.43 ERA in three starts for that club.
Those are obviously not great numbers but Beede has shown more potential in the past. As a youngster, he was highly-touted enough to be a first-round pick twice. The Blue Jays selected him 21st overall in 2011 but he didn’t sign and went to Vanderbilt. Then in 2014, the Giants took him 14th overall. He was a notable prospect for a bit but never became a star in the big leagues. By the end of 2022, he had logged 187 innings, mostly with the Giants but also with the Pirates. He had a 5.34 ERA in that time.
He went overseas for the 2023 season, signing with the Yomiuri Giants of Japan’s Nippon Professional Baseball. That went pretty well, as he posted a 3.99 ERA. His 16.4% strikeout rate wasn’t too impressive but he got grounders on 57.4% of balls in play. He returned to North America by signing a minor league pact with the Guardians. He made that club’s Opening Day roster but posted an 8.36 ERA in 14 innings and was bumped from the roster in early May.
The Cubs surely aren’t banking on Beede for much but there’s no real risk on a minor league deal. Chicago likes to build bullpens on the cheap. From the end of the 2019 season to the end of the 2025 season, they didn’t sign any relievers to multi-year deals. They built a decent relief corps for their 2025 team via a series of unheralded pickups, including Brad Keller, Drew Pomeranz, Caleb Thielbar and others.
They have been in a somewhat similar lane here going into the 2026 season. They did give a two-year deal to Phil Maton, worth $14.5MM. Apart from that, they have given one-year deals to Thielbar, Hunter Harvey, Hoby Milner and Jacob Webb, each worth $6MM or less. They’ve added Collin Snider and Jeff Brigham on minor league deals and now add Beede into the mix. Beede was mostly a starter earlier in his career but has been doing more bullpen work in recent seasons.
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Happy for this guy
I sure hope he can figure out how to avoid walks and rely on an outpitch
Its a minor league signing, buddy. That’s where you work on things like that.
dude’s has been working on it for sometime now, but my comment still stands with hoping they help him figure it out better than many other foreign or minor systems he has been with.
This is hard to believe! Beedah lives
One of them sure fire prospects from long ago. Still making money playing a child’s game, so good on him. Beats my stats..
Dream doesn’t work out for most, but if you can hang around for 10 years it’s quite the fallback option.
He should have stuck overseas for a bit longer. He’s always had the stuff to succeed, never any control
FOREVER GIANT
Happy to trade him back. 😉
Bees????
Beeds
Aaaaand we’re back! Let those minor league signings rain like dollar bills at the club!!
First time following a mlb offseason?
Hardly, I’m just trying to be a hype man for perhaps the dullest off-season in the last 20 years
Please don’t.
“dullest off-season in the last 20 years” stop thinking the MLB offseason is supposed to entertain you.
Never give up. Never surrender.
Can you offer no trade protection on a minor league deal?
Forgive me, but this is not a serious question, right?
It’s not serious on my part, but with Jed you never know.
Haha well played.
Why
The Cubs have a bunch of guys that will be playing in the WBC in all probability for a few countries. They just want some arms in Camp to eat up some innings I bet. As long as they’re Minor League deals so what? Maybe they catch lightning in a bottle like Keller even and find somebody useful.
There is literally no reason whatsoever to believe this guy will be anything but below replacement level. His bref page looks like a guy who was given many more chances than he earned. Sometimes the scouts are just wrong.
I’ll always remember that the comp pick the Jays received for failing to sign him ended up being Marcus Stroman.
Why? He’s been garbage for years. And he wasn’t good in Japan, contrary to the one silver lining of his GB%. Dude couldn’t even make it on the Ducks, then was worse in Mexico.
Better than me. But my name aint CakeFarts. Do you do parties?
If Hoyer does nothing else he’s accomplished what he needed to accomplish and even a bit more IMO. He needed young Arm with 4 guys in their rotation possibly leaving after this year. ( Boyd, Taillon, Shota, Stelele) That’s why I would still think about Gore( In for a penny). Bregman was more than I was expecting and he did his usual bullpen by last years knockoffs but at least now has some young potential pieces to go with the retreads. He’s never going to change his bull pen philosophy so I stopped hoping. If he does nothing else it’s OK, Maybe even preferable.