Andy Weber

Andy Weber

• Bats Left, Throws Right
• Height 6' 0", Weight 190 lb.
• School University of Virginia
• High School Aurora (OH) High School

• Born July 24, 1997 in Aurora, OH USA

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Biographical Information

Infielder Andy Weber was drafted by the Chicago Cubs in the 5th round of the 2018 amateur draft, out of the University of Virginia. He went on to have a long minor league career. In his final year with the Cavaliers in 2018, he put up some great numbers, finishing with a slash line of .344/.415/.536.

He began his pro career in 2018 and in 2019 played 127 games for the South Bend Cubs of the Midwest League as the team's starting shortstop, batting .275 with 65 runs scored. He was part of the generation for which the COVID-19 pandemic was very costly, as he would very likely have played a full season in High-A or AA in 2020, but instead had to sit idle while the minor leagues were shut down. To compound things, he was injured in 2021 and limited to just 41 games with the AA Tennessee Smokies, hitting .214. he was back at Tennessee in 2022, but suffered another injury, and while it did not cost him as many games as the year before, he was still limited to 76 games. He did well when he played, with a slash line of .300/.360/.393, but he still repeated the level in 2023, his career having apparently stalled. He hit just .237 in 107 games in his third go-round with the Smokies, and his slugging percentage was just .333.

He was taken by the Arizona Diamondbacks in the minor league portion of the 2023 Rule V Draft, but his 2024 season was again plagued by an injury. He appeared for three different teams - the ACL Diamondbacks, the AA Amarillo Sod Poodles and the AAA Reno Aces, the latter for just 11 games. In 53 games overall, he was at .305/.356/.502, so even though he was already 26, he still showed some promise. In 2025, he started the season at Amarillo, where he hit .260 in 27 games, then was promoted to AAA on May 13th. He had been a shortstop in AA, but the D-Backs wanted to look at him as a second baseman. On May 21st, he was involved in a unusual game-ending play against the Albuquerque Isotopes. With the bases loaded in the 9th inning and Reno trailing 4-3 at home, he was the runner at first base when Connor Kaiser hit a double to right center. Reno's players came off the bench to celebrate the anticipated win, but one of them tripped up Cristian Pache who was running from second base, and when Pache got up and crossed the plate, he was declared out by the umpire for interference. Luckily, however, Andy had not stopped running, and amidst the confusion, he crossed the plate as well, and his run was the one that ended the game and gave Reno the unusual walk-off win.

Related Sites

• University of Virginia bio