Red Sox target Joe Ryan thought he was traded to Boston before deadline

Like many Pink Sox followers, Joe Ryan was amongst those that have been deceived by false social media posts that he had been traded to Boston previous to Thursday’s deadline.

The Twins pitcher admitted that he thought he was on the transfer after seeing a number of social media posts from verified shops that mentioned that the Pink Sox acquired him in a commerce.

“I clearly thought I acquired traded for a number of minutes after which it was like, ‘Is that this going to occur? What’s the deal?’ That was a bizarre mixture of feelings,” Ryan informed reporters, via MLB.com’s Matthew Leach. “I used to be with Griffin [Jax] throughout that. It was simply bizarre. Then he didn’t suppose he was going to get traded, and he acquired traded [while] I didn’t. It was bizarre. It was quite a bit. It felt like I used to be throwing an intense scenario in a sport.”

Ryan had been linked to the Pink Sox for weeks previous to Thursday’s commerce deadline. Whereas it appeared unlikely that Ryan would get moved, it was reported by MLB Community’s Jon Morosi that the Pink Sox have been intesfying their efforts to get the Twins’ ace with lower than hour earlier than the 6 p.m. deadline.

Apparently, a number of individuals misinterpret that report from Morosi. Shortly after, the MLB on FOX and Yahoo! Sports accounts on X posted that the Pink Sox had acquired Ryan,

After all, that wasn’t the case. However, Ryan was nonetheless left confused Thursday night, particularly as Minnesota traded away 10 gamers within the days main as much as the deadline.

“I used to be sort of anticipating a name after all the things [got] blown up after which I pretend [got] traded,” Ryan mentioned. “After which nothing. So it was like, ‘all proper, that was a bit bizarre.’”

Simply how shut a deal got here to fruition and the way critical the Pink Sox’ provide was to the Twins has been debated since Thursday night. The Athletic‘s Ken Rosenthal called Boston’s offer for Ryan “feeble, at best,” whereas Pink Sox chief baseball officer Craig Breslow disagreed with that notion.

One factor that’s clear, although, was the Pink Sox weren’t willing to part with one of their major leaguers in the deal. Boston turned down Minnesota’s request to incorporate both Jarren Duran or Wilyer Abreu,  The Athletic‘s Dan Hayes reported. Throughout his post-deadline press convention on Thursday, Breslow mentioned that gamers on the MLB roster have been basically off limits in commerce talks.

“During the last two to 3 weeks, it grew to become clear that every one 26 guys on our roster have been contributing to what we have been doing, and we weren’t keen to take a success to our main league workforce and probably affect the 2025 season in favor of making an attempt to repackage or repurpose in a manner that may have improved the longer term,” Breslow mentioned.

Boston’s provide for Ryan largely consisted of a few of its high prospects, together with Payton Tolle, Franklin Arias, and Jhostynxon Garcia,  WEEI’s Rob Bradford reported.

One other factor that’s clear is that Ryan is without doubt one of the sport’s finest pitchers, and he continued to show that case on Friday. A day after coping with commerce uncertainty, Ryan allowed simply two runs in six innings within the Twins’ 3-2 extra-innings loss to the Guardians. It marked the sixth time that he’s allowed two or fewer runs in his final seven begins as he holds a 2.83 ERA on the season.

Ryan, who has two years left a workforce management following the 2025 season, mentioned he hasn’t had a dialog with the Twins about his future but as many have speculated that the Pink Sox will make an try to land him once more this offseason.

“I feel they have been simply respecting my area at present on begin day,” Ryan mentioned following his begin on Friday. “Simply making an attempt to maintain it as regular as attainable. I admire that aspect of it. In all probability not the time to have that dialog. I’m certain they’ll discover time. We’ve acquired two months.”