{"id":421678,"date":"2026-01-20T15:42:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T15:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/421678\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T15:42:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T15:42:08","slug":"phillies-designate-weston-wilson-for-assignment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/421678\/","title":{"rendered":"Phillies Designate Weston Wilson For Assignment"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Phillies announced this morning that they\u2019ve designated infielder Weston Wilson<\/a> for assignment. The move makes room for veteran catcher J.T. Realmuto<\/a>, whose new contract with Philadelphia is now official, on the 40-man roster.<\/p>\n

Wilson, 31, has appeared in 100 games for the Phillies over the past three seasons while being used in an up-and-down bench role. He\u2019s slashed a respectable .242\/.328\/.428 (109 wRC+) across 245 career trips to the plate in the big leagues, with eight stolen bases and nine homers. That\u2019s decent enough production from a bench player, and Wilson has paired it with decent versatility. While he\u2019s primarily played left field in the majors, he\u2019s also received time at second base, third base, first base, and right field. He\u2019s also seen time at shortstop in the minors previously, though that was not the case this past year.<\/p>\n

That combination of versatility and a solid resume in the big leagues might make Wilson seem like a very attractive bench piece, but a tough 2025 season casts doubt on that assessment. When looking exclusively at this most recent campaign, Wilson hit just .198\/.282\/.369 (81 wRC+) in the majors across 54 games. Underlying metrics, including a 10.3% barrel rate, an unusually low .236 BABIP, and a .333 xwOBA that significantly outpaces his .288 wOBA all suggest that Wilson may have some poor fortune baked into those weak numbers, particularly given that his strikeout (27.2%) and walk (9.6%) rates were both improved relative to 2024.<\/p>\n

Those signs that positive regression could be on the way, in conjunction with Wilson\u2019s career 130 wRC+ against left-handed pitching, make it easy to think that Wilson could hold down a bench role at the big league level. That didn\u2019t allow him to hold onto his roster spot in Philadelphia, however, as Otto Kemp<\/a> and Edmundo Sosa<\/a> are both ahead of him on the team\u2019s depth chart when it comes to right-handed utility players. In previous years, the Phillies would\u2019ve surely held onto Wilson and kept him on the roster as optionable depth, but Philadelphia used Wilson\u2019s last option year in 2025 and would now need to pass Wilson through waivers in order to send him to the minors anyway.<\/p>\n

They\u2019re getting that process underway now. They\u2019ll have one week to either work out a trade involving Wilson or put him through the waiver wire. Should Wilson clear waivers, the Phillies would likely outright him to the minor leagues where he could serve as non-roster depth for the club headed into 2026. Given Wilson\u2019s solid numbers at the big league level, however, it seems likely that a team will be interested in rolling the dice on him. That could come in the form of a simple waiver claim, or perhaps a minor trade if a team is interested enough in Wilson to try and work out a deal with Philadelphia directly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Phillies announced this morning that they\u2019ve designated infielder Weston Wilson for assignment. The move makes room for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":421679,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,13307,462,82,176649],"class_list":["post-421678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-j-t-realmuto","tag-mlb","tag-sports","tag-weston-wilson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421678","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=421678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421678\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/421679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}