Weiss still misses Korea → Scenes of grilling meat with a Korean grill are captured "K barbecue at home."

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Ryan Weiss (30), who returned to the U.S. after signing with the Houston Astros in the Major League Baseball after playing a key role as a starting pitcher for the Hanwha Eagles in the 2025 season, has been caught still unable to forget the taste of Korea.

Hayley, Weiss's wife, recently revealed on her social media that she was enjoying a meal with her family. What caught our attention was the scene where Weiss was grilling meat with a 'Korean-style meat grill'. Weiss appeared to be fascinated by Korean food culture, adding the phrase "K-barbecue at home (home kbbq)" along with a video of sizzling meat being cooked.

Weiss is truly a foreign player who has written a success story in Korea. Weiss, who wore a Hanwha uniform as a substitute for Ricardo Sanchez, who was listed as injured due to elbow pain in June 2024, succeeded in signing a formal contract for the 2025 season with a not bad performance of 5-5 with a 3.73 ERA in 16 games in the 2024 season. In the 2025 season, Weiss truly opened his eyes to baseball. In as many as 30 games, he improved with 16 wins, 5 losses and a 2.87 ERA. He played 178 ⅔ innings in the regular league alone and also had 207 strikeouts. He stood tall as the league's top starting pitcher.

In the end, Houston snatched Weiss. Houston succeeded in recruiting Weiss by giving him a guarantee of $2.6 million (about 3.8 billion won) in the 2026 season. In a recent interview with the Houston Chronicle, Ryu Hyun-jin (39) and other KBO leagues with high baseball intelligence made him mature baseball.

In December last year, Weiss said goodbye to his SNS, saying, "I didn't know I would fall into such a welcoming and affectionate Korean culture. Especially, I didn't know that Korean food would ruin me like this. I even bought a KBBQ grill and came (to the US). I feel like the team members, staff, and fans who embraced me went beyond work and became a family. Korea will always be a part of me. This greeting will not be a farewell. We'll see each other again someday. I want to thank you for everything in Korea," he said.

Weiss appears to be about to leave for the Houston spring camp. The 'Korean-style grill' captured in this situation suggests that they still miss Korea and Daejeon.

Weiss' attitude, which respected and enjoyed Korean culture itself beyond simple meals, is also believed to be in line with the secret of "opening his eyes to baseball" in the KBO League. The flexibility of accepting the unfamiliar environment like a family led to a smart pitch on the mound, and now the energy is heading to the Major League. Like his promise that "we will meet again someday," it is a pleasant trailer that makes us look forward to the day when he will be on the Korean mound again in the future.

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