{"id":41136,"date":"2025-08-02T05:45:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-02T05:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/41136\/"},"modified":"2025-08-02T05:45:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-02T05:45:11","slug":"cubs-release-ryan-pressly-mlb-trade-rumors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/41136\/","title":{"rendered":"Cubs Release Ryan Pressly – MLB Trade Rumors"},"content":{"rendered":"

August 1: As expected, Pressly has been released, per the MLB.com transaction log<\/a>.<\/p>\n

July 31: The Cubs have designated right-hander Ryan Pressly<\/a> for assignment, according to The Athletic\u2019s Patrick Mooney<\/a>.\u00a0 The move opens up roster space for newly-acquired reliever Taylor Rogers<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Pressly has well over 11 years of MLB service time, so he can\u2019t be optioned to the minors without his consent.\u00a0 In all likelihood, the DFA will end with the Cubs just releasing the veteran reliever, as he still has roughly $4.5MM in salary owed to him over the remainder of the season.\u00a0 The Astros are covering $5.5MM of Pressly\u2019s $14MM total 2025 salary, but the bottom line is that any interested new team can sign Pressly to a contract after he is released, and then just owe him a prorated Major League minimum salary while the Cubs or Astros cover the rest of the $4.5MM.<\/p>\n

When Chicago acquired Pressly from Houston in January, the thinking was that Pressly would be the favorite for save situations in the Cubs bullpen.\u00a0 Unfortunately, Pressly\u2019s run as closer was run short by mid-May, with Daniel Palencia<\/a> eventually emerging as the top choice in ninth-inning situations.<\/p>\n

Pressly\u2019s 15.4% strikeout rate was his lowest since 2014, as the K% continued its sharp decline from the righty\u2019s 35.7% career best in 2022.\u00a0 His 9.3% walk rate was also Pressly\u2019s worst since the 2015 season, and he was near the bottom of the league in hard-contact rate.\u00a0 The result was a 4.35 ERA over 41 1\/3 innings, and while that ERA was inflated by some rough numbers after the All-Star break, the advanced metrics indicated that Pressly\u2019s bottom-line numbers were due for regression.<\/p>\n

As a 13-year veteran and two-time former All-Star, Pressly\u2019s resume will get him plenty of looks once he presumably clears waivers and is released.\u00a0 A return to Houston wouldn\u2019t be out of the question, with the idea that a return to his old stomping grounds could spark a bounce-back.\u00a0 Any number of other contenders might be willing to take a virtually no-cost flier on Pressly now that the deadline has passed and a few clubs are still in need of bullpen help.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"August 1: As expected, Pressly has been released, per the MLB.com transaction log. July 31: The Cubs have…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":41137,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,29381,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-41136","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-ryan-pressly","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41136\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}