Ryan Pressly Retires After 13-Year MLB Career

Veteran Major League Baseball reliever Ryan Pressly announced his retirement Saturday after a 13-year career marked by two All-Star selections and a pivotal role in the Houston Astros' 2022 World Series championship.

The 37-year-old right-hander, who debuted with the Minnesota Twins in 2013, shared the news in a personal statement, reflecting on nearly two decades in professional baseball. "It's bittersweet, but what a ride it's been," Pressly wrote. He expressed gratitude to the teams that shaped his journey, including the Boston Red Sox organization that drafted him in the 11th round of 2007 out of a Dallas-area high school. Pressly credited the Twins for giving him his big-league start as the 20,346th player to wear a major-league uniform and highlighted his time with the Astros as a homecoming, given his wife's Houston roots and the birth of their two sons, Wyatt and Hunter, during his tenure there.

Acquired by the Astros in a 2018 trade from the Twins, Pressly thrived in Houston over seven seasons, posting a 2.81 earned-run average and a 1.027 walks-plus-hits-per-inning ratio across 342 relief appearances. He struck out 11.1 batters per nine innings during that stretch and...