A 30-ish-year-old righty trying to make a comeback on a minor league deal with the Cubs after missing time after surgery, having been really successful as a starting pitcher in his younger days, and also having spent some time in the Royals organization?
OK, yes, I’m stretching to make the superficial Brad Keller comparison, but only for the fun of it. No predictions about role or success are being offered here!
The Chicago Cubs are reportedly signing former Braves starter (and minor league Royals rehabber) Kyle Wright to a minor league deal. The 30-year-old is best known for his breakout season in Atlanta in 2022, after a long period of being a big-time prospect who couldn’t quite get over that Triple-A/MLB hump:
(via FanGraphs)As you can see, Kyle Wright’s breakout was brief, as he dealt with a shoulder injury the next year that ultimately required surgery. That surgery cost him the entire 2024 season, which was technically spent in the Royals organization (he was traded just after surgery in the fall of 2023), and then he was rehabbing his way up the minors in 2025. Unfortunately he dealt with shoulder fatigue and an oblique injury in 2025, so he never made it back up to the big leagues.
Where that leaves Kyle Wright today, obviously, is a wide open question. This is the general storyline for guys the Cubs love to work with. A formerly-successful big league pitcher known for having great stuff (that groundball rate is making me drool), with a good diversity of pitches to work with, who was knocked out by injury, and who may find renewed success working with the Cubs’ pitching infrastructure.
Kyle Wright has always been a starting pitcher, up to and including his rehab with the Royals, so it wouldn’t be fair to assume he’s now a reliever conversion project. But you don’t rule it out in these situations. We’ll have to see what the Cubs approach is – and how heathy he is – when he gets going at Spring Training.
Highly-unlikely-to-come-up, but-technically-possible: if Wright were to break back out with the Cubs in 2026, he is actually controllable for one additional season via arbitration. In part for that reason, it’s a good guess that Wright is getting a strong big league salary if/when he’s in the big leagues, by the way. (That’s the flip side to a lot of these higher-quality minor league deals: they aren’t guaranteed to cost the Cubs big money, but *IF* the player ever does get brought onto the big league roster, they’ll lock in a salary that is probably higher than your typical minor league signing.)
Wright joins Vince Velasquez as big league veteran starting pitchers in on minor league deals, potentially serving as both starting depth and also upside reclamation plays. Together with the very robust group of reclamation reliever options for the Cubs, this is a pretty incredible group of pitchers the Cubs have available on non-guaranteed deals this spring.
The Cubs are signing RHP Kyle Wright to a minor league deal with an invite to MLB camp.Wright hasn’t pitched in the majors since 2023 due to injuries. Career 4.45 ERA over 281.1 IP.Heavy curveball usage. Fastball and sinker sit 93–95, mixes a changeup and slider. pic.twitter.com/jtTWlWyvcw
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