The White Sox have added another outfield option to the mix, agreeing to a minor league deal with Joey Wiemer, according to Chicago Sports Network and MLB.com's Scott Merkin.
Wiemer, 27, is headed to Triple-A Charlotte, where he’ll give Chicago some right-handed depth in the outfield. The move comes after the Washington Nationals released him on Wednesday. He had been at Triple-A Rochester since being optioned there in the middle of May.
His numbers in the minors this season never really took off. In 166 plate appearances at Rochester, Wiemer hit .196/.277/.257 with one home run and a 31% strikeout rate.
That was a sharp fall from the kind of start he put together in the majors. Wiemer opened the year by reaching base in each of his first 10 plate appearances, tying the major league record, and went deep in each of his first two games.
Over his first five games, he was 10-for-17 with two home runs. After that, his production faded over his next 61 plate appearances, when he hit .189/.295/.340 and struck out 41% of the time.
Even with the late slide, Wiemer finished his major league stint with a .286/.398/.514 line and a .912 OPS in 32 games. Across parts of four MLB seasons, though, he owns a career .216/.296/.380 slash line in 582 plate appearances.
A fourth-round pick by the Brewers in the 2020 draft, Wiemer was listed among baseball’s top-100 prospects in 2022 and 2023. His game has long been built on power, speed and defense, but the swing-and-miss has stayed with him. He has struck out in 31% of his major league plate appearances and 26% in Triple-A, where he’s a .221/.326/.351 hitter in more than 1,000 plate appearances.
Chicago’s outfield depth chart had already taken a hit after Everson Pereira was claimed off waivers by the St. Louis Cardinals. With Junior Perez and Rikuu Nishida also on the 40-man roster and assigned to Charlotte, Wiemer gives the White Sox another experienced right-handed option.
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