{"id":413970,"date":"2026-01-18T00:54:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T00:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/413970\/"},"modified":"2026-01-18T00:54:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T00:54:12","slug":"two-time-all-star-reliever-ryan-pressly-announces-his-retirement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/413970\/","title":{"rendered":"Two-time All-Star reliever Ryan Pressly announces his retirement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-746446fd=\"\">Two-time All-Star reliever <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\/ryan-pressly-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ryan Pressly<\/a> has retired after a 13-year career in which he collected 117 saves and helped the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\/houston-astros-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Houston Astros<\/a> win the 2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\/world-series\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">World Series<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-746446fd=\"\">\u201cIt\u2019s bittersweet, but what a ride it\u2019s been,\u201d Pressly said in a statement announcing his retirement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-746446fd=\"\">Pressly, 37, recorded six saves and allowed only one unearned run over 11 innings during Houston\u2019s 2022 postseason run. He compiled two saves and gave up just that one unearned run over 5 2\/3 innings in the Astros\u2019 4-2 World Series victory over the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\/philadelphia-phillies-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Philadelphia Phillies<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-746446fd=\"\">He went 37-39 with a 3.33 ERA to go along with his 117 career saves with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\/minnesota-twins-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Minnesota Twins<\/a> (2013-18), Astros (2018-24) and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\/chicago-cubs-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chicago Cubs<\/a> (2025). He made 667 career appearances \u2014 all in relief \u2014 and struck out 721 batters in 691 1\/3 innings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-746446fd=\"\">Pressly made All-Star teams with Houston in 2019 and 2021.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-746446fd=\"\">He was 3-1 with a 2.78 ERA and 14 saves in 47 career postseason appearances.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-746446fd=\"\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-746446fd=\"\">AP <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MLB<\/a>: https:\/\/apnews.com\/mlb<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two-time All-Star reliever Ryan Pressly has retired after a 13-year career in which he collected 117 saves and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":196103,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[363,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-413970","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-mlb","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=413970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413970\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}