The Pirates agreed to a minor league contract with reliever Ryder Ryan, reports Jason Mackey of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (X link). He’ll be in MLB camp as a non-roster invitee.
Ryan made his major league debut last season. He pitched once for the Mariners, turning in a scoreless inning with two strikeouts and a walk against Baltimore. The North Carolina product otherwise spent his year with the M’s Triple-A club in Tacoma. He had a nice showing for the Rainiers, working to a 3.76 ERA across 55 innings. The righty punched out just under a quarter of his opponents against a slightly high 9.6% walk rate.
The 28-year-old has appeared in parts of three Triple-A campaigns, allowing 4.24 earned runs per nine in 159 1/3 frames. While Ryan has very little major league experience, he has been of interest to a few teams as a depth arm. Originally drafted by Cleveland, he was dealt to the Mets for Jay Bruce in 2017 and flipped to Seattle in 2020 as the player to be named later in a Todd Frazier deal.
Seattle outrighted Ryan from the 40-man roster last month. He became a minor league free agent, setting the stage for him to join a fourth organization of his career. The Bucs had a middling relief group, finishing 19th with a 4.22 ERA and 14th with a 23.7% strikeout percentage.
Well no matter what happens he gets to tell his grandkids that he was able to pitch in the major leagues, even if he never makes it out of AAA again.
To anyone who says it was just 1 inning ,how many innings did you pitch in the show again?
So Kudos to Mr Ryan and maybe Pittsburgh will give him a chance sometime during the season.
He pitched a good inning against a strong ball club, at that. It’s hard not to root for guys to get an opportunity when they work so hard and wait so long for it.
He’s also eligible for some other benefits offered by the MLBPA unlike the minor league players who never make it.
Yes ! The final piece is now in place for our Series run.
welcome to the Black and Gold Ryder
I like his name. It sounds like a kinky adult movie soley about men. Me. Like. Shoot, don’t tell Ellen.
So does your username.
The Mets traded him to Texas, not Seattle, for Todd Frazier.
It’s easy to check facts like that on Baseball Reference.
Savage
Regardless, he’s wearing a Mariners hat in his Baseball Reference picture
Because he was with the Mariners last year.
Regardless, the Mets traded him to Texas, not Seattle.
B-R has a Transactions section on each player’s page.
Personally I don’t care who traded him to where, he’s no longer with that team
Was hoping he would be back in Tacoma for the M’s. Good luck to him going forward!
Yeah it’s early, but what the Pirates have done so far this off season is almost hysterical.
Edwardk64, what the Pirates have done so far in this offseason is predictable yet disheartening.
Scraping the bottom of the food chain for players who are either over the hill or are never will bees and the further along the offseason goes, the worse the signings will get
This guy made the opening day roster.