{"id":195413,"date":"2025-10-07T13:09:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T13:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/195413\/"},"modified":"2025-10-07T13:09:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T13:09:07","slug":"twins-joe-ryan-among-red-sox-pitching-targets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/195413\/","title":{"rendered":"Twins’ Joe Ryan Among Red Sox Pitching Targets"},"content":{"rendered":"

You can never have enough pitching. The Boston Red Sox learned that the hard way during their American League Wild Card Series<\/a> with the New York Yankees. <\/p>\n

Red Sox manager Alex Cora<\/a> was forced to start rookie left-hander Connelly Early<\/a> in the series-clinching Game 3 loss<\/a> because right-hander Lucas Giolito<\/a> was sidelined with a late-season elbow injury.<\/a><\/p>\n

With that in mind, Masslive.com\u2019s Sean McAdam<\/a> identified some offseason pitching targets for chief baseball officer Craig Breslow<\/a> to consider.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt wouldn\u2019t be surprising if the Red Sox made another run at Minnesota\u2019s Joe Ryan,\u201d McAdam wrote. \u201cThe Red Sox engaged with the Twins at the trade deadline last July, but couldn\u2019t reach a last-minute agreement.<\/p>\n

\u201cOther available starters on the trade market \u2014 like Miami\u2019s Sandy Alcantara<\/a> \u2014 could attract interest too,\u201d McAdam added. \u201cOn the free agent market, the Sox could choose from among Michael King, Dylan Cease, Zac Gallen and Framber Valdez.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Of the pitchers McAdam listed, Ryan certainly is the most intriguing. He\u2019s coming off his best season in the majors<\/a>, tying his career high with 13 wins while posting a career-low 3.42 ERA.<\/p>\n

Like McAdam reported, Breslow and the Red Sox made a hard push <\/a>to acquire the 29-year-old right-hander before the July 31 MLB trade deadline<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In the club\u2019s end-of-season press conference, Breslow admitted pitching is on his mind heading into Hot Stove season.<\/p>\n

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\u201cNo one will sit in this seat and say that there\u2019s enough pitching in the organization,\u201d said Breslow, per McAdam. \u201cI think we saw that in the second half and we could list out the pitchers that were on the IL and it just means that depth is so critically important. <\/p>\n

\u201cSo, like I said, when we talk about pursuing opportunities to improve the team, bringing in (more) pitching certainly is one of them,\u201d Breslow added.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

As Breslow mentioned, the Red Sox have a handful of young pitchers rehabbing from injuries, including Hunter Dobbins<\/a>, Kutter Crawford<\/a> and Tanner Houck<\/a>. Plus Early and Payton Tolle<\/a>, Boston\u2019s other top pitching prospect, have the Red Sox believing the system is stocked with quality arms. So Breslow shouldn\u2019t have to feel compelled to make a trade for an established pitcher if the deal isn\u2019t right.<\/p>\n

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Speaking of deals, Ryan would be a cost-controlled arm who has two more seasons of eligibility remaining.<\/a> While that is attractive to the Red Sox, it also means Boston would have to pay a premium for Ryan, who earned his first All-Star bid in 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"You can never have enough pitching. The Boston Red Sox learned that the hard way during their American…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":195414,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[42152,64,63,15430,12742,591,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-195413","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-alex-cora","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-craig-breslow","12":"tag-joe-ryan","13":"tag-mlb","14":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195413\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}