{"id":352396,"date":"2025-12-18T02:46:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T02:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/352396\/"},"modified":"2025-12-18T02:46:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T02:46:07","slug":"giants-designate-joey-wiemer-for-assignment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/352396\/","title":{"rendered":"Giants Designate Joey Wiemer For Assignment"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Giants are designating outfielder Joey Wiemer<\/a> for assignment, the team informed reporters (including Alex Pavlovic of NBC Sports Bay Area<\/a>). San Francisco needed to open a 40-man roster spot after signing reliever\u00a0Jason Foley<\/a> yesterday. They\u2019ll need to open another spot once they finalize their two-year agreement with starter\u00a0Adrian Houser<\/a>.<\/p>\n

San Francisco picked up Wiemer in a DFA trade with Miami last month. The 26-year-old always seemed a long shot to stick on the 40-man roster throughout the winter. Wiemer has bounced around over the past year-plus. He\u2019s been traded from Milwaukee to Cincinnati to Kansas City, then landed with Miami on an August waiver claim. He\u2019ll hope to land with a sixth organization within the next week.<\/p>\n

Listed at 6\u20194\u2033 and 226 pounds, the righty-swinging Wiemer has plus raw power. He\u2019s also a plus runner who grades as a quality defender at all three outfield positions. The physical gifts are obvious, but his long levers have led to a lot of swing and miss. Wiemer has punched out at a near-30% clip across 499 career plate appearances, leading to a .205\/.279\/.359 batting line despite 16 homers and 12 stolen bases.<\/p>\n

The Giants have five days to trade Wiemer or place him back on waivers. He has yet to clear waivers, so they\u2019d be able to keep him in the organization as a non-roster player if they manage to sneak him through unclaimed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Giants are designating outfielder Joey Wiemer for assignment, the team informed reporters (including Alex Pavlovic of NBC…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":352397,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,134032,462,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-352396","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-joey-wiemer","11":"tag-mlb","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=352396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352396\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/352397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}