Proper-hander Patrick Weigel, who’s spent the majority of the season pitching with the Mexican League’s Saraperos de Saltillo, has signed a minor league cope with the Reds, as first introduced by his now-former membership. Weigel was assigned to Double-A Chattanooga and tossed an ideal inning with one strikeout on Sunday.
Weigel, who turned 30 final week, pitched in a pair of massive league seasons in 2020-21. The previous seventh-round decide ranked as one of many Braves’ prime organizational pitching prospects for years, climbing as excessive because the system’s ninth-best prospect on Baseball America’s 2017 checklist and rating inside BA’s prime 20 Braves prospects every year from 2017-21.
Regardless of being a prospect of some notice for greater than a half decade, Weigel has simply 4 2/3 innings on the massive league stage underneath his belt. He yielded 4 earned runs on six hits and 7 walks with 9 punchouts in that tiny pattern. He’s posted sterling numbers all through the decrease and center ranges of the minors however stumbled a bit upon reaching Triple-A, the place he carries a profession 4.68 ERA, 21.1% strikeout price and 13.4% stroll price in 209 2/3 innings throughout components of 4 seasons.
Weigel’s run with Atlanta got here to an finish in 2021, when the Braves traded him to the Brewers alongside fellow righty Chad Sobotka within the deal that netted present shortstop Orlando Arcia. Weigel was lower unfastened following that 2021 season and has since pitched for the Mariners’ Triple-A affiliate and for the Kansas Metropolis Monarchs of the impartial American Affiliation along with this 12 months’s stint in Mexico.
He’ll have to pitch his method into bullpen consideration for the Reds, however Sunday’s spotless body was an excellent begin — and his work in a really hitter-friendly Mexican League setting was intriguing as properly. Weigel tossed 37 2/3 innings and labored to a pointy 2.87 earned run common whereas fanning 28.3% of his opponents in opposition to a tidy 7.9% stroll price.
