{"id":484415,"date":"2026-02-22T20:23:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T20:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/484415\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T20:23:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T20:23:09","slug":"twins-all-star-right-hander-joe-ryan-has-inflammation-in-lower-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/484415\/","title":{"rendered":"Twins All-Star right-hander Joe Ryan has inflammation in lower back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Minnesota Twins All-Star right-hander Joe Ryan is expected to be available for the start of the season after an MRI revealed only inflammation in his lower back.<\/p>\n<p>Twins general manager Jeremy Zoll said Sunday that Ryan, the team&#8217;s expected opening day starter, will rest for a few days. Ryan had the MRI after tightness in his lower back forced him to miss his scheduled start in Saturday&#8217;s spring game.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He&#8217;s just dealing with some inflammation and as a result has some tightness,&#8221; Zoll told MLB.com. &#8220;So he&#8217;ll be down for a few days here just to let things calm down. We&#8217;ll progress him as tolerated and don&#8217;t envision this impacting his readiness for opening day.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The encouraging update on Ryan was especially important after the Twins lost ace Pablo L\u00f3pez for the season. Zoll announced Tuesday that L\u00f3pez has a &#8220;significant tear&#8221; in his right ulnar collateral ligament. <\/p>\n<p>Ryan, 29, was 13-10 with a 3.42 ERA in 2025 while making his first All-Star team.<\/p>\n<p>While Ryan is expected to be ready for opening day, the inflammation and tightness in his lower back leaves his status uncertain for Team USA in the World Baseball Classic.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Minnesota Twins All-Star right-hander Joe Ryan is expected to be available for the start of the season after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":484416,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[13090,2326,363,99],"class_list":["post-484415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-minnesota-twins","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484415","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=484415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484415\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/484416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=484415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}