Biography

BIOGRAPHY

Zack Weiss was born June 16, 1992, in Irvine, California. He is a pitcher in the MLB.

He has played for the Cincinnati Reds of Major League Baseball (MLB). He has four pitches; he mostly throws his 93-95 mph fastball and a slider and also throws a curveball and a changeup.

Weiss was a 2015 Southern League All-Star, and a 2015 MILB.com Cincinnati Organization All-Star, after a season in which his 30 saves were second-most in the minor leagues. The Cincinnati Reds added Weiss to their active roster for Opening Day 2018, and he made his major league debut that year.

In 2018, he became a dual Israeli citizen. He pitched for Team Israel at the 2019 European Baseball Championship. He also pitched for the team at the Africa/Europe 2020 Olympic Qualification tournament in Italy in September 2019, which Israel won to qualify to play baseball at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo.