{"id":253916,"date":"2026-07-21T02:06:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T02:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/21\/historically-bad-start-could-complicate-twins-pitcher-joe-ryans-trade-market\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T02:06:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T02:06:12","slug":"historically-bad-start-could-complicate-twins-pitcher-joe-ryans-trade-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/21\/historically-bad-start-could-complicate-twins-pitcher-joe-ryans-trade-market\/","title":{"rendered":"Historically bad start could complicate Twins pitcher Joe Ryan&#8217;s trade market"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Amid trade speculation, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/mlb\/teams\/minnesota_twins\/17\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Minnesota Twins<\/a> pitcher Joe Ryan had an historically poor start in a 13-4 loss to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/mlb\/teams\/cleveland_guardians\/8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cleveland Guardians<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, Ryan set a personal and Twins franchise record by allowing six home runs. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sports-reference.com\/stathead\/baseball\/player-pitching-game-finder.cgi?request=1&amp;order_by=p_hr&amp;timeframe=seasons&amp;year_min=1920&amp;role=GS\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Per Stathead research<\/a>, he became just the 11th starting pitcher of the live ball era (since 1920) to hit that mark in a single game.<\/p>\n<p>Ryan was pulled after four innings, allowing eight earned runs on 10 total hits with three strikeouts in 78 pitches. After entering the day with a 2.85 earned run average in 20 starts, Ryan&#8217;s ERA jumped to 3.38 following the defeat.<\/p>\n<p>With the trade deadline only weeks away on Aug. 3, the 2026 All-Star&#8217;s rough outing couldn&#8217;t have come at a worse time for Minnesota.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/plain\" class=\"optanon-category-C0004\">\n    !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n    {if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n    n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\n    if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\n    n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n    t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n    s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script',\n    'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n    fbq('init', '1324276914788316');\n    fbq('track', 'PageView');\n  <\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/mlb\/articles\/historically_bad_start_could_complicate_twins_pitcher_joe_ryans_trade_market\/s1_13132_44083559\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amid trade speculation, Minnesota Twins pitcher Joe Ryan had an historically poor start in a 13-4 loss to the Cleveland Guardians. On Monday, Ryan set a personal and Twins franchise record by allowing six home runs. Per Stathead research, he became just the 11th starting pitcher of the live ball era (since 1920) to hit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":253917,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6806],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-253916","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-gossip"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253916\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/253917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}