“It’s bittersweet, but what a ride it’s been,” Pressly said in a statement announcing his retirement.<\/p>\n
Pressly, 37, recorded six saves and allowed only one unearned run over 11 innings during Houston’s 2022 postseason run. He compiled two saves and gave up just that one unearned run over 5\u2154 innings to help the Astros win the World Series over the Philadelphia Phillies<\/a> in six games.<\/p>\n Editor’s Picks He went 37-39 with a 3.33 ERA and 117 career saves with the Minnesota Twins<\/a> (2013-18), Astros (2018-24) and Chicago Cubs<\/a> (2025). He made 667 career appearances — all in relief — and struck out 721 batters in 691\u2153 innings.<\/p>\n Pressly made All-Star teams with Houston in 2019 and 2021. He was 3-1 with a 2.78 ERA and 14 saves in 47 career postseason appearances.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jan 17, 2026, 07:13 PM ET Two-time All-Star reliever Ryan Pressly retired Saturday after a 13-year career in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":414035,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[363,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-414034","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\/414034","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=414034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414034\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/414035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=414034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=414034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=414034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/r1597758_1296x1296_1-1.jpg&w=130&h=130&scale=crop&location=center.jpeg\")
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