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Giants Designate Kai-Wei Teng For Assignment

By Darragh McDonald and Nick Deeds | November 19, 2024 at 5:24pm CDT

The Giants announced that they have selected right-handers Carson Seymour and Carson Ragsdale to their 40-man roster, protecting them from being available in the Rule 5 draft. They had one roster vacancy but opened another by designating righty Kai-Wei Teng for assignment.

Teng, 25, signed with the Twins as an international amateur out of Taiwan prior to the 2018 season. He was traded for the Giants the following year in the deal that shipped right-hander Sam Dyson to Minnesota at that year’s trade deadline. Teng slowly climbed the minor league ladder with the Giants, though he did so with generally middling results at each level along the way. Back in March, the righty made his big league debut just after Opening Day. He ultimately made just four multi-inning relief appearances in the majors, however, and struggled badly with a 9.82 ERA in 11 innings of work. Command was the right-hander’s primary issue, as he actually recorded more walks (eight) than strikeouts (seven) during his brief stay on the big league roster.

Teng was optioned back to the minors in mid-April, but unfortunately did not see his numbers improve when he headed to Triple-A. He split his time at the level between the club’s rotation and bullpen, with 13 starts and ten relief appearances. Things did not go well for Teng, however, as he was torched to the tune of a 8.60 ERA across 75 1/3 innings of work. He struck out just 17% of opponents at the level this year while walking 12.3%, leaving him with a strikeout-to-walk ratio that would be untenable for any pitcher. Given Teng’s deep struggles, it’s not necessarily a surprise that the Giants decided to part ways with the righty. San Francisco will now have one week to attempt to trade the righty or place him on waivers, where he would be available for any of the league’s 29 other clubs to claim.

Teng’s departure makes room on the 40-man roster for the additions of Seymour and Ragsdale. Ragsdale, 26, is a starting pitcher who missed the majority of the 2022 and ’23 seasons due to injury but returned strong in 2024. The right-hander began the season with his first taste of upper-minors action at the Double-A level and excelled, pitching to a 3.49 ERA in 67 innings of work across 14 starts. He struck out an excellent 33.1% of opponents faced, though he was held back somewhat by an elevated 11.5% walk rate. Even so, that was more than enough to earn Ragsdale a mid-season call-up to Triple-A. Unfortunately, Triple-A was not quite as forgiving for the right-hander as Double-A. He struggled in 13 appearances (12 starts) at the level with a 5.03 ERA in 53 2/3 innings of work. His walk rate largely held steady at 11%, but his strikeout rate dipped to just 24.1% at the highest level of the minors.

Seymour, meanwhile, won’t turn 26 until next month. The right-hander was acquired by the Giants in the deal that sent Darin Ruf to the Mets and actually struggled through something of a down season at Triple-A this year, as he surrendered a 4.82 ERA in 134 1/3 innings of work. He struck out 22.1% of opponents while walking 10.1%. Prior to his struggles this year, however, Seymour had pitched to strong results in back-to-back seasons. In a 2022 season split between the Mets and Giants organizations, Seymour posted a 3.08 ERA in 111 innings between the Single-A and High-A levels while striking out 29.3% of opponents. The righty posted slightly diminished but still solid numbers in his first full season with the Giants last year at Double-A, as he pitched to a 3.99 ERA in 112 2/3 innings of work with a 24.4% strikeout rate.

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20 Comments

  1. LFGMets (Metsin7) #BannedForBeingABaseballExpert

    7 months ago

    If you say his name fast it sounds like Karate

    Reply
    • paddyo furnichuh

      7 months ago

      Maybe IF sender has pronunciation issues and receiver is hard of hearing.

      Reply
  2. disadvantage

    7 months ago

    Gotta protect those Carsons.

    2
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    • JohnJasoJingleHeimerSchmidt

      7 months ago

      Some soccer mom is going to be very, very happy.

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      Reply
  3. NYCityRiddler

    7 months ago

    But why teng? Ahahaha!-

    Reply
  4. goob

    7 months ago

    Tough decision but probably the right Teng to do.

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    • Acoss1331

      7 months ago

      Ain’t no Teng but a Teng!

      Reply
    • Pete'sView

      7 months ago

      Teng was clearly not a player to be protected. Watching him in a Giants uni was tough. Let some other team try to get some value out of his arm. Giants have too many strong pitching prospects to worry about him.

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      Reply
  5. 408inthe619

    7 months ago

    It’s Buster’s way or the Kai-Wei

    5
    Reply
  6. Eighty Raw

    7 months ago

    You know the awful, racist jokes are coming out whenever there is an East Asian name in the headline.

    4
    Reply
    • TellItGoodbye

      7 months ago

      Sad reality: we live in a racist country.

      4
      Reply
    • LFGMets (Metsin7) #BannedForBeingABaseballExpert

      7 months ago

      @Eighty Raw People on here have made fun of Andre Scrubbe, Kyle Garlick, Danny Mendick, etc. Its not racist to make fun of someones name

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      • Bart Harley Jarvis

        7 months ago

        Agreed, no one got upset when everyone made fun of Joe Angrywhiteguys’s name.

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      • TellItGoodbye

        7 months ago

        The fact that you don’t see a difference proves my point.

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        • Bart Harley Jarvis

          7 months ago

          Since I’m in complete agreement with you, poking fun at angry old white guys; makes we realize my attempt at irony has failed miserably. For that I must apologize.

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        • TellItGoodbye

          7 months ago

          Oops. My reply was meant for LFGMets. My fail!

          1
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    • scottn59c

      7 months ago

      I dunno, most of the jokes here are really puns; I don’t see them (or their intent) as racist. I’ve seen plenty of puns over the years here on Darin Ruf’s last name, too. If you have a humorous sounding or onomatopoeic name, people are going to do that; and most of those that do can usually take it without being offended.

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      • TellItGoodbye

        7 months ago

        Making occasional puns on someone’s name isn’t the issue – it’s the pervasive need to find a “joke” in most Asian (usually Chinese) names that reveals an underlying ignorance at best and racism at worst.

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  7. Major League Baseball Fan

    7 months ago

    Carson Seymour. Buster and the boys trolling trade master Billy Eppler and the Mets. Giants still trying to win this Ruf trade.

    1
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  8. MLBTR needs to hire editors

    6 months ago

    “Meanwhile” has to START the sentence. It can’t come in the middle, between commas.

    Reply

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