Redleg Nation · Aug 4, 2015
Q&A with Double-A Pensacola reliever Zack Weiss
You’d be hard-pressed to find a full-time relief pitcher in the Reds’ farm system enjoying a better season than 23-year-old Zack Weiss.
After recording uneven rookie ball numbers in 2013, the right-handed Weiss thrived at Low-A Dayton in 2014 (63.1 innings, 11.37 K/9, 2.98 BB/9, 2.92 FIP) and has enjoyed another leap forward in 2015.
The UCLA product began the 2015 campaign with High-A Daytona and was downright dominant — and in an Aroldis Chapman sort of way: 11.2 innings, 22 strikeouts, two hits, one walk, and zero runs allowed. Prefer all of that dominance formulated into a single number? How about -0.33. Yes, that’s a negative number, and that figure communicates Weiss’ FIP at Daytona.