{"id":327113,"date":"2025-12-03T01:37:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T01:37:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/327113\/"},"modified":"2025-12-03T01:37:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T01:37:11","slug":"astros-to-sign-ryan-weiss-to-major-league-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/327113\/","title":{"rendered":"Astros To Sign Ryan Weiss To Major League Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Astros have reportedly agreed to a major league deal with right-hander Ryan Weiss<\/a>, who has been pitching in Korea lately. Weiss is guaranteed $2.6MM and there\u2019s a club option for 2027. He could potentially earn $10MM over the course of the pact. The Astros have a full 40-man roster and will need to make a corresponding move to make this official.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a bit of an early birthday present for Weiss, who turns 29 next Wednesday. A fourth-round draft pick of the Diamondbacks back in 2018, he showed enough promise as a minor leaguer that the Snakes added him to their 40-man in November of 2021 to keep him out of the Rule 5 draft. He had just tossed 78 1\/3 minor league innings in that 2021 season with a 4.60 earned run average and 9.5% walk rate but his 27% strikeout rate was quite good.<\/p>\n

He struggled in the minors in 2022 and was placed on waivers, with the Royals placing a claim. Kansas City then passed him through waivers unclaimed in October of 2022. The Royals then released him in May of 2023. At that point, Weiss had tossed 76 1\/3 innings on the farm, dating back to the start of 2022. In that time, he allowed 6.96 earned runs per nine.<\/p>\n

That release kicked off a nomadic period for Weiss. He then landed with the High Point Rockers of the independent Atlantic League. After a few months there, with a 4.61 ERA, he signed with the Fubon Guardians of Taiwan\u2019s Chinese Professional Baseball League. He had a decent 2.32 ERA there, though in just 31 innings. He started 2024 back with the Rockers, posting a 4.61 ERA over nine starts.<\/p>\n

In June of 2024, he signed with the Hanwha Eagles of the Korea Baseball Organization. It was with that club that he seemed to unlock a new gear. In 2024, he gave the Eagles 16 starts with a 3.73 ERA, 25.5% strikeout rate, 7.6% walk rate and 48.2% ground ball rate. He returned to the Eagles in 2025 and took the ball 30 more times. He logged 178 2\/3 innings with a 2.87 ERA, 28.6% strikeout rate, 7.7% walk rate and 48.5% ground ball rate.<\/p>\n

Weiss then pitched in relief for the Eagles in the playoffs but the Astros plan to utilize him as a starter. Houston has plenty of uncertainty in their rotation mix. They just lost Framber Valdez<\/a> to free agency. Luis Garcia<\/a> required another Tommy John surgery late in 2025 and has been jettisoned from the roster. Hayden Wesneski<\/a>, Ronel Blanco<\/a> and Brandon Walter<\/a> also had TJS in 2025 and are slated to begin next year on the injured list.<\/p>\n

That left the Astros going into 2026 with Hunter Brown<\/a> and a heap of question marks behind him. Cristian Javier<\/a> will be in the mix but he had a 4.62 ERA in 2025 after returning from his own lengthy surgery layoff. Lance McCullers Jr.<\/a> has had all kind of injury troubles and put up a 6.51 ERA this year. Spencer Arrighetti<\/a> was good in 2024 but spent most of 2025 on the IL and only made seven starts. Jason Alexander<\/a> had some passable results this year but he\u2019s a journeyman depth guy who\u2019s about to turn 33. J.P. France<\/a> spent most of 2025 recovering from shoulder surgery. Colton Gordon<\/a> and AJ Blubaugh<\/a> are on the 40-man but lacking in experience.<\/p>\n

Upgrading the rotation for 2026 makes plenty of sense but it appears the club doesn\u2019t have a ton of spending capacity. Reportedly<\/a>, owner Jim Crane would prefer to avoid the competitive balance tax in 2026. RosterResource<\/a> projects them for a $218MM CBT number next year. That\u2019s more than $20MM below next year\u2019s $244MM base threshold but the club also has other needs to address this winter. Trading someone like Christian Walker<\/a> or Jake Meyers<\/a> might free up some extra space but it\u2019s somewhat tight for now.<\/p>\n

So far, their rotation additions have been of the low-cost wild card variety. They took a flier on former top prospect Nate Pearson<\/a>, signing him<\/a> to a $1.35MM guarantee. Now they\u2019ve added Weiss into the mix as well. Perhaps there\u2019s a more surefire rotation upgrade over the horizon. For now, the Astros are making a modest bet that Weiss transfer some of his strong KBO results to the MLB level. For his part, Weiss gets a nice paycheck despite still having no major league experience.<\/p>\n

Reporter Daniel Kim<\/a> first reported that the two sides were close to a deal. Brian McTaggart<\/a> of MLB.com<\/a> reported that an agreement was in place for a major league pact and that Weiss will be a starter. Jesse Rogers of ESPN<\/a> reported the guarantee, the presence of a \u201927 option and the possibility for the deal to go beyond $10MM. Chandler Rome of The Athletic<\/a> specified that the option is a club option.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Astros have reportedly agreed to a major league deal with right-hander Ryan Weiss, who has been pitching…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":327114,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[363,166432,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-327113","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-mlb","9":"tag-ryan-weiss","10":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327113","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=327113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327113\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/327114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}