MLB: Yankees signs veteran pitcher who threw with three clubs in 2021, including Red Sox

The New York Yankees signed veteran right-hander Ryan Weber with a minor league contract. The right-handed pitcher was a minor league free agent, which allowed him to sign a 40-man non-roster deal during the ongoing strike freeze.

The 6-foot-1, 175-pound Weber has pitched in the major leagues in each of the past seven years. The sinker pitcher has worked in swingman capacity, starting 16 of his 63 appearances and totaling 167 cumulative innings:

While he only struck out 14.9% of batters faced at the MLB level, Weber has shown excellent control (5.4% walk rate) and racked up ground balls on more than half the balls in play against him.

The 31-year-old only made four MLB appearances last season, though he came in with three different teams. He made an exit each with the Boston Red Sox and Milwaukee Brewers and pitched in a couple of games for the Seattle Mariners.

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Weber spent most of the year with those teams’ respective Triple-A affiliates, combining for 103 1/3 frames of a 4.18 ERA with a miniscule 3.1% walk percentage in generally hitter-friendly environments.


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I am a fan of the King of Sports, especially the Boston Red Sox in MLB and all Mexican baseball in general. This profession has given me the opportunity to cover major events such as the Caribbean Series, LMB All Star, LMP (uninterruptedly since 2009), signatures of important players. I had the chance to attend the 2013 World Classic in Arizona, USA, although as a fan. Apart from this beautiful sport, I love basketball, where I have also narrated games and even an NBA friendly 10 years ago, but I have baseball in my veins. Degree in Communication Sciences from the Autonomous University of Sinaloa (UAS) , from which I graduated in 2011. I was born in Mazatlán, Sinaloa and started in the world of sports journalism in 2004 in the newspaper El Sol de Mazatlán, where I was a baseball columnist and a reporter at the same time. In January 2009 I arrived at El Debate as a journalist reporter and it was almost six years (in the first stage), until in November 2014 I emigrated to the radio providing my services at Línea Directa-Grupo RSN. My cycle there ended in July 2019 and a few days later, El Debate gave me another opportunity to work and opened the doors for me again. This is how I came to Al Bat, where I have been since 2019 as a web journalist.

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MLB: Yankees signs veteran pitcher who threw with three clubs in 2021, including Red Sox