{"id":455113,"date":"2025-11-30T19:19:32","date_gmt":"2025-11-30T19:19:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/455113\/"},"modified":"2025-11-30T19:19:32","modified_gmt":"2025-11-30T19:19:32","slug":"one-time-tigers-1st-round-pick-signs-with-nl-east-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/455113\/","title":{"rendered":"One-Time Tigers 1st-Round Pick Signs With NL East Team"},"content":{"rendered":"

In 2015, Beau Burrows was an overpowering right-handed high school pitcher from Weatherford, Texas, who was such a highly regarded prospect that the Detroit Tigers made him their first-round draft pick, and signed him with a $2.1 million bonus<\/a>. By 2019 he had risen to be the Tigers No. 6 overall prospect<\/a>. He had also been ranked among the top 100 prospects in baseball by both MLB Pipeline and Baseball America<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was awesome,\u201d Burrows told The Athletic later. \u201cA great feeling. I was on top of the world for a year or two.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Beau<\/p>\n

But a series of injuries unraveled Burrows’ career. He bounced among five organizations<\/a> and he started this year pitching in the Mexican League. But on May 7, the Pittsburgh Pirates saw something<\/a> in him and signed him to a minor league contract, as listed on the MiLB.com transactions page<\/a>. By the end of the season, the Pirates had promoted Burrows all the way through their farm system to the Triple-A Indianapolis Indians.<\/p>\n

Across four minor league levels, Burrows posted a solid 2.91 ERA in 49 innings<\/a> out of the bullpen. He performed well enough that after the season he elected to enter free agency.<\/p>\n

Three weeks later, on Wednesday, the Pirates signed him back.<\/p>\n

More MLB: Giants Trade For Ex-Top 100 Prospect, Giving Up No Players in Return<\/a><\/p>\n

“This is exactly the kind of low-risk, upside-only reunion that the Pirates love to make. Burrows isn\u2019t being handed a rotation spot or being promised leverage innings, but he’s being given another runway,” wrote Emma Lingan of the Pirates site <\/a>RumBunter. <\/p>\n

Did his numbers in 2025 show that Burrows is finally on the path to reviving the promise he showed as a young prospect? If he can prove that next season, he may find himself in Pittsburgh as a bullpen arm to support a young and talented starting staff headed by Cy Young Award winner Paul Skenes.<\/p>\n

If he shows that the Triple-A level is his ceiling, however, Burrows is likely looking at the end of his baseball career at the age of 30.<\/p>\n

More MLB: Yankees 23-Year-Old Righty Turns Heads With Rare Display of Dominance<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In 2015, Beau Burrows was an overpowering right-handed high school pitcher from Weatherford, Texas, who was such a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":455114,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2386],"tags":[5,147,53,2583,4,64,594],"class_list":{"0":"post-455113","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-detroit-tigers","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-detroit","10":"tag-detroit-tigers","11":"tag-detroittigers","12":"tag-mlb","13":"tag-pittsburgh-pirates","14":"tag-tigers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/115640268485323026","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=455113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455113\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/455114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=455113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=455113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=455113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}