{"id":416257,"date":"2026-01-17T23:21:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T23:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/416257\/"},"modified":"2026-01-17T23:21:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T23:21:07","slug":"longtime-reliever-ryan-pressly-retires-from-mlb-after-13-seasons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/416257\/","title":{"rendered":"Longtime reliever Ryan Pressly retires from MLB after 13 seasons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A World Series-winning closer is hanging it up.<\/p>\n<p>Ryan Pressly announced his retirement from professional baseball on Saturday via social media after 13 major league seasons. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cHoisting that World Series trophy in 2022, that\u2019s something I always dreamed of,\u201d Pressly said. \u201cI\u2019ll carry that joy forever. Houston, you\u2019ve got our hearts \u2014 it\u2019s our forever home now. Thank you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The 37-year-old right-hander was a free agent entering the current off-season after finishing up the final year of his contract with the Chicago Cubs in 2025. <\/p>\n<p>Pressly pitched to a 4.35 ERA with 28 strikeouts, 17 walks and fives saves over 41.1 innings in his final season. <\/p>\n<p>Born in Dallas, Pressly spent seven seasons with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/baseball\/mlb\/teams\/houston-astros\/\" class=\"sn-team-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-team=\"houston-astros\" data-league=\"mlb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Houston Astros<\/a>, where he won the World Series in 2022, recording the final three outs against the heart of the Philadelphia Phillies order. <\/p>\n<p>He occupied the Astros&#8217; closer role for four years, amassing 102 saves, the fourth most in MLB  between 2020-2023. <\/p>\n<p>Pressly finished his career with a 3.33 ERA, 721 strikeouts, and 117 saves over 667 appearances split between the Cubs, Astros and Minnesota Twins.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A World Series-winning closer is hanging it up. Ryan Pressly announced his retirement from professional baseball on Saturday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":416258,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-416257","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-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416257","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=416257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416257\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/416258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}