{"id":51423,"date":"2026-06-13T03:07:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T03:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/51423\/"},"modified":"2026-06-13T03:07:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T03:07:11","slug":"daejeon-jesus-ryan-weiss-designated-for-assignment-by-houston-hanwha-return-in-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/51423\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Daejeon Jesus’ Ryan Weiss Designated for Assignment by Houston, Hanwha Return in Question"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"RyanRyan Weiss. Yonhap News<\/p>\n

Pitcher Ryan Weiss, who joined Major League Baseball’s Houston Astros on the strength of his performance with the KBO League’s Hanwha Eagles last year, faces release after just half a season.<\/p>\n

The Houston club announced Tuesday that it had designated Weiss for assignment (DFA). Weiss joined Hanwha during the 2024 season and made a strong impression in 2025, appearing in 30 games and recording 16 wins, 5 losses, a 2.87 ERA, and 207 strikeouts. Powered by Weiss’s performance, Hanwha advanced to the Korean Series.<\/p>\n

Having caught the eye of MLB scouts, Weiss signed a one-year contract worth a total of 2.6 million dollars (about 4 billion won) with Houston after the season ended and headed to the United States. Weiss, who made the team’s opening-day roster, was expected to perform well in the big leagues, but he fell short of expectations, posting 3 losses and a 7.62 ERA in 9 regular-season games.<\/p>\n

Weiss was demoted to the minor leagues hoping for a rebound, but struggled with no wins, 3 losses, and an 8.41 ERA over 5 games. Houston ultimately decided to release him.<\/p>\n

Weiss can immediately transfer if a team expresses interest in signing him. However, if no team wants him, his status will change to that of a minor leaguer or he will become a free agent (FA). Some have raised the possibility that Weiss could return to Hanwha, where he had thrived.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ryan Weiss. Yonhap News Pitcher Ryan Weiss, who joined Major League Baseball’s Houston Astros on the strength of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":51424,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[11269,355,6475,354,29473,2535,29475,29474,29472],"class_list":["post-51423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-hanwha","tag-baseball","tag-hanwha","tag-hanwha-eagles","tag-hanwha-group","tag-houston-astros","tag-kbo-league","tag-korean-series","tag-mlb-designated-for-assignment","tag-ryan-weiss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51423\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}