TODAY: The Yankees outrighted Weber to Triple-A
JULY 6: The Yankees announced Wednesday that right-hander Ryan Weber has been designated for assignment. His spot on the roster will go to righty Miguel Castro, who’s been reinstated from the paternity list.
Weber, 31, appeared in just one game in his latest Yankees stint, tossing a scoreless inning of relief on just 11 pitches. He’s totaled 4 2/3 innings of one-run ball with the Yankees this season, spending the remainder of the season with their Triple-A affiliate in Scranton. This is the second time Weber has been designated for assignment this season. He cleared waivers, elected free agency and quickly re-signed with the Yankees the first time around. It wouldn’t be a surprise at all to see the same sequence play out once again, as it’s fairly common for journeyman pitchers of Weber’s nature. (See also: Drew Hutchison in Detroit this season)
The Yankees are the seventh Major League team for which Weber has pitched since debuting with the Braves back in 2015. He’s logged big league time each season since that debut but has never appeared in more than 14 games and has maxed out at 43 Major League innings in any given season. Through 171 2/3 innings as a Major Leaguer, Weber has a 5.19 ERA with a well below-average 14.8% strikeout rate but an excellent 5.3% walk rate and a strong 52.9% grounder rate.
The Yankees will have a week to trade Weber, attempt to pass him through waivers or release him.
Can my team please put in a claim for this guy?
I think he gets traded before claimed but good luck.
He cleared waivers w/o a claim just a few weeks ago and after his 1 nice MLB performance this season with the Yanks. Declared FA, then resigned a minors deal with them, then was recalled for 5 days before this 2nd DFA. Nothing has changed since. the first DFA.
Weber is very close (maybe 2 weeks?) to becoming arb eligible so I’m sure he’d be happy to go anywhere he had a good shot to get a few weeks of service on an active roster. Still will likely be a FA again come next offseason.
Bucsfan – Only if the minor league system is bare to the point there are few true prospects. Ryan Weber is a true AAAA pitcher. Most teams will have a hard time protecting all the legitimate prospects (especially at the end of the season when Rule 5 eligible players need to be protected).
If you saw the trash in the Pirates bullpen (the guys they bring in when they don’t have a lead), you would agree that someone like Weber might be an upgrade for a lesser team like the Bucs. No more trolleys between the Bronx and Lehigh Valley
Sad….I remember the Pirates from the 1970s. They were competitive almost every year…
Might be best for Weber to just get a normal job at this point early 30’s and hasn’t even made much dough in MLB.
Wow that is harsh. He’s a journeyman reliever and yet still probably makes more $ annually than most people do.
He’s already collected over $1.3M based on service time, has gold-standard life-time medical care, will receive a pension, with more to come. Hopefully you’re not advising anyone in finances.
Please stop perpetuating this myth. They need 5+ years of service to have the *option to pay* for MLB medical. And the pension is around 50k annually with ~3 years of service – if taken at age 62. If taken earlier it’s much less. Fully vested pension doesn’t kick in until at least 8 years.
Your information is incorrect.
If you are on an active 25 man roster for one game, you’ll get a lifetime of quality medical care.
Wrong. With one day on the active roster you get medical care for that entire season. If you are not on the roster opening day the following season then it terminates.
@johng123, once again, incorrect. You’re either purposely trying to misrepresent and spread incorrect information, or you have misinterpreted the plan. The fact you keep repeating “8 years” regarding pensions, shows you’re not even aware of the thresholds. First, a single day on a MLB roster means MLB players when they retire have access to MLB’s gold-standard plan for life. Second, once a player accumulates 41 days service time, he’s entitled to receive pension benefits, prorated by the amount of time he’s on a roster. This maximizes up to ten years. A player can begin collecting his pension at age 42, but like all pension plans, the longer someone waits, the higher the benefit. At age 42, it’s approximately $70K ( the numbers might have changed with the most recent CBA), and if they wait until age 62, it’s approximately $230K.
Now only you know why you attempted a strawman argument that has nothing to do with my original post. What is obvious is you don’t understand the benefits related to MLB’s healthcare coverage in retirement, nor the thresholds and payouts related to the pension plan. To paraphrase you, stop perpetuating false information.
You’re correct that the pension fully vests at 10 years, not 8, and bumps up every 43 days. However I didn’t repeat 8 and my original statement of “at least 8” isn’t incorrect. My point was that the pension isn’t a huge benefit until you’ve hit free agency, at which point you’ve probably made pretty good money from contracts anyway.
Your absolute certainty about the MLB healthcare with one day is really perplexing though, and I promise you, is completely false. Where exactly does your deep understanding of MLB benefits come from? Go watch Matt Antonelli’s YouTube video on MLB healthcare where he addresses this very topic and please report back.
My info is from the MLBPA site.
That’s an interesting source because I can’t find benefit plan info anywhere on their site. I’m guessing you didn’t actually watch the video, but why would an actual MLB player make a video saying that despite having 1+ days of service, he does NOT have coverage for life?
I also did find a copy of the 2020 health benefit plan informational packet:
HOW LONG AM I INSURED? All players currently on a 40-Man roster or any Player that spends at least one day on the 40- Man roster during the 2020 season will have insurance until Opening Day – 2021.
If a player is released and is not on the 40-Man roster on opening day of 2021, the Player will have options to continue coverage at his own expense. Those options will be provided to the player by the Benefit Plan office.
Is this sounding familiar?
Finally, from another resource:
“If you are an inactive member with less than four years of credited service, you may be eligible to continue health care coverage for up to 24 months after your status as an active member ends. If you are an inactive or retired member with four or more years of credited service, you may continue health care coverage for yourself and your dependents as long as you pay the required premiums.”
My apologies – it’s 4 years not 5. So with 4+ years of service, players have the option to continue paying premiums for access. With less than 4 years, you get COBRA for 24 months and that’s it.
So to your original comment, he currently does NOT have access to “gold-standard life-time medical care.” And those that do have access still have to pay for it – they don’t just “get it for life.”
So can we all now agree that the “free healthcare for life with one day in the big leagues” myth is categorically false?
I would hang on forever if I could , never get a real job
A lot of the American players went to some good colleges and most graduated I’m sure they find a good paying job
Now pitching Shaun Owens, the first 75 year old player in MLB history. Lol
I guess you did not literally mean, “I would hang on forever if I could , never get a real job”!
Weber is good. I would rather hold on to him and DFA Luetge, who has been less effective this season and has slipped back in Boone’s circle of trust.
Luetge has a 3.04 ERA, a 3.00 FIP, and an xERA of 2.79. I’ve seen no indication that Boone values him less than last year. He’s fourth in IP among Yankee relievers and third in fWAR.
Yeah DFA’ing Luetge makes no sense and they can simply trade him with over half the league pitching the Yankees offers.
Luetge is preferable to Chapman, who is cooked.
Luetge is “less effective” to the point he earned a 3.1-inning save last night.
Is there a limit to how many times you can designate a player in a season?
And also when a player is out of minor league options and gets designated, goes unclaimed and resigns with that same teams minor league, do the options restart?
Options do not reset. Weber is in DFA limbo right now so hopefully the Yankees are allowing him to work out with the team.
I see. And if they can’t work anything out and he goes unclaimed can they just resign him? Basically repeating the process
Yes. Prior to his DFA, Weber could have agreed to go down to the minor leagues on his volition. However, the Yankees will have to keep his roster spot which they didn’t want to do.
Without options he still needs to go through waivers. He agreed to be assigned to AAA this time.
Poor Manny. No mercy from his old team in his Pirates debut. Gotta feel sorry for him.
I was feeling sorry for VanMeter and his 75 mph fastball.
He’s a good enough arm that a rebuilding team should take a chance on him to help the bullpen out. Or he can just keep signing small deals with contenders and fill in when needed lol
This is a lot of talk for a guy with one good game w the yanks
How ironic, my Weber just ran out of gas.
Weber lives to pitch another day with the Yankees.
Rather have Weber than Aroldis. Why is still on this team? He’s on the final year of his contract and no man in his proper frame of mind will include him on a playoff roster. Let him go.