{"id":305693,"date":"2025-11-21T19:14:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T19:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/305693\/"},"modified":"2025-11-21T19:14:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T19:14:07","slug":"giants-to-acquire-joey-wiemer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/305693\/","title":{"rendered":"Giants To Acquire Joey Wiemer"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Giants are acquiring outfielder Joey Wiemer<\/a> from the Marlins, reports<\/a> Susan Slusser of the San Francisco Chronicle. Miami designated the former top prospect for assignment earlier in the week when setting its roster ahead of the deadline to protect players from the Rule 5 Draft.<\/p>\n

Now 26 years old, Wiemer was the Brewers\u2019 fourth-round pick in 2020. He appeared on the back end of MLB.com\u2019s top-100 prospect list in both 2022 and 2023 but has seen his stock dwindle since that time. Milwaukee flipped him to the Reds alongside Jakob Junis<\/a> in the 2024 Frankie Montas<\/a> trade, and Cincinnati subsequently dealt him to Kansas City with Jonathan India<\/a> in exchange for right-hander Brady Singer<\/a>. The Marlins scooped him up off waivers in early August, shortly following this year\u2019s trade deadline.<\/p>\n

Wiemer has appeared in parts of three major league seasons between the Brewers, Reds and Marlins. He popped 13 homers and swiped 11 bags as a rookie in \u201923 but did so with poor rate stats. He\u2019s a career .205\/.279\/.359 hitter through 499 trips to the batter\u2019s box in the majors. That said, he\u2019s shown plenty of pop against lefties, albeit with still-shaky OBP skills; in 173 plate appearances versus southpaws, the righty-swinging Wiemer is a .255\/.298\/.484 hitter (106 wRC+).<\/p>\n

Beyond his above-average power versus lefties, Wiemer is capable of playing all three outfield spots and doing so at a fairly high level. Even bearish scouting reports on him over the years have labeled him as a potential plus defender. Defensive metrics bear that out. Wiemer has positive marks in all three spots individually and a collective 11 Defensive Runs Saved and 7 Outs Above Average in 1249 innings of outfield work at the big league level.<\/p>\n

Wiemer is out of minor league options, so he\u2019ll need to stay on San Francisco\u2019s 40-man roster all offseason and break camp with the team or else be designated for assignment once again. He can\u2019t be sent to the minors without first passing through waivers. For now, he projects as a possible bench option who could platoon with lefty-swinging Drew Gilbert<\/a> in right field \u2014 if the Giants don\u2019t make a larger-scale addition at the position. Former top prospects Luis Matos<\/a> and Marco Luciano<\/a> could compete for a similar role, but both hit poorly in 2025 and have seen their once lofty prospect stock crater in recent years. Like Wiemer, both Matos and Luciano are out of minor league options, so at least two of the three figure to be roster casualties between now and Opening Day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Giants are acquiring outfielder Joey Wiemer from the Marlins, reports Susan Slusser of the San Francisco Chronicle.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":305694,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[92727,363,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-305693","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-joey-wiemer","9":"tag-mlb","10":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=305693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305693\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/305694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}