Zack Weiss #16

Zachary D. Weiss...X: @zackweiss32...Instagram: @zackweiss32...Has dual citizenship in the United States and Israel and is a member of the Israeli national baseball team...Pitched collegiately at UCLA, from 2011-13...Was a 2011 Freshman All-American...Had a career-best 2.25 ER as a reliever on the Bruins 2013 National Championship squad...Was a Geography/Environmental Studies major...Was a 2013 Jewish Sports Review Division I College Baseball All-American, along with Alex Bregman and Brad Goldberg...Played in the 2011 Cape Cod League for the Yarmouth-Dennis Red Sox...Attended Northwood HS (Irvine, Calif.) where as a senior he was second-team All-CIF Southern Section Division II and second-team All-Sea View League...Academically, had a 4.0 GPA.

2023

Made four appearances in Spring Training for Los Angeles-AL, allowing seven earned runs in 3.0 innings pitched...Pitched for Team Israel in the WBC, pitched 2.0 perfect innings on March 12 vs. Nicaragua (3 SO), then allowed one run in 1.1 IP on March 15 vs. Venezuela (2 H, BB, 2 SO)...Began the season with Salt Lake City, pitching in 10 games before first recall (6.75 ERA, 9 ER/12.0 IP, 18 SO)...Recalled by Angels on May 14...Earned his first career win on May 19 vs. Minnesota, his season debut (0.1 IP, BB, SO)...Recalled by Angels a second time on July 5...Appeared in three games and allowed one run (solo HR) over 3.0 IP...Recalled a third time on July 27 and made his final appearance for the Angels that day at Detroit (0.2 IP, 1 ER, HBP, BB, SO)...Optioned to Salt Lake City on July 28...Recalled by Angels on Aug. 7 but did not appear in a game before getting optioned on Aug. 11...Designated for assignment on Aug. 22 and claimed off waivers by Boston on Aug. 25 and optioned to Worcester...Recalled by Boston on Sept. 9 and made Red Sox debut on the same day vs. Baltimore (2.0 IP, 2 ER, 2 SO, 2 HR)...11 of his 15 strikeouts in the Majors came on his slider...Opponents hit .121 against the pitch (4-for-33, 3 XBH)...Designated for release or assignment by Boston on Jan. 31, 2024, and claimed off waivers by Minnesota on Feb. 7. 

2022

Began season with Triple-A Salt Lake and pitched in 43 games...His 65 strikeouts led Bees bullpen, while holding opponents to a .226 (44/195) average for the season...Had contract selected by Angels on Sept. 1 and made Angels debut Sept. 2 vs. Houston, retiring all four batters faced in first MLB appearance since Major League debut with Reds Apr. 12, 2018...Began Angels tenure with 7.0 consecutive scoreless innings pitched across parts of six outings, before allowing a home run to Seattle’s Ty France to snap streak...Was not charged with a run in nine of 12 games for Angels and compiled 18 strikeouts in 13.1 innings.

2021

Began season with one appearance for Kansas City Monarchs in independent American Association...After signing with Seattle on May 22, totaled 30 games for Triple-A Tacoma...Ranked fourth on Rainiers staff with 30 appearances and averaged 12.7 strikeouts per nine innings (39.2 IP -56 SO)...During the summer, also pitched for Israel at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games...Pitched in three games (7 IP) during the tournament and was the winning pitcher in a Knockout Stage game vs. Mexico.

2017

In 34 apps at Class A Daytona and Class AA Pensacola combined to finish 4-5, 2.63 with 10 saves in 15 opps...began the season at Daytona and on 5/31 made his first professional appearance since the 2015 season...on 6/30 was promoted to Pensacola and ranked second on the staff in saves (9, Jimmy Herget 16)...on 11/20 was added to the 40-man roster.