Insiders Drops MASSIVE Red Sox Pitching Updates
MLB Insiders just dropped major information surrounding the Boston Red Sox offseason plans when attacking the starting pitching market. I’m here to break down all of the new reports from Jeff Passen, John Haymon, and others discussing how Joe Ryan could be at the forefront of the plans of the Boston Red Sox this off seasonason. We’ll break down all of that on this episode of Red Sox Digest. But first, please do remember, scroll down and click that subscribe button as nearly 70% of you guys watching this video are not currently subscribed. Help us hit our new goal of 10,000 subscribers. We do appreciate all the love and support. So, thank you guys tremendously for everything. But now, let’s get to it and break down these major Joe Ryan updates. as we haven’t discussed Joe Ryan a whole lot since the offseason has officially started for the Red Sox, but we all know what Joe Ryan is to this Red Sox organization and the fan base surrounding the Boston Red Sox. And if you are lucky enough to have no idea what I’m referencing, you missed last season, specifically the trade deadline, the MLB trade deadline from last season. Because for about what 4 minutes, I believe, maybe 3 minutes, Joe Ryan was a Boston Red Sox. Based off the two reports, one from Fox Sports MLB and Yahoo Sports, both on Twitter, posted a graphic that looked relatively similar to this one. And it said, “Breaking Joe Ryan has been traded to the Red Sox per John Morrisy.” And it was basically a misinterpretation of what something Morrisy had said. Unfortunately, all of Red Sox nation and basically all of the MLB world was set to fire because they all thought the Boston Red Sox being led by Garrett Crochet in an offense that looked really, really good and very scary for a lot of credible teams in the league just got better with another dominant running partner next to Garrett Crochet. Obviously, that did not happen. And the Red Sox went without making a blockbuster trade for a new addition in Boston. We all know that they did make a blockbuster trade well before the deadline in Raphael Des going to the San Francisco Giants. But now we get to the off seasonason and now that we know Craig Brelo has not only said it once, but he has doubled down in the last few days about the Boston Red Sox plans, not only about going out there and obtaining a power bat for the middle to early stages of this lineup that is going to be prolific and scare the other teams, but at the forefront alongside with that power bat idea is the addition of a pitcher and a starting pitcher at that. And we are not discussing a number four or a number five or even a number six guy in that starting rotation for the Red Sox. Craig Brezlo is on the record once again stating how the Red Sox are in the market for starting pitching, but not just some ordinary starting pitching. They want a number two guy, a legit number two guy along the talents and skill level of a Joe Ryan to pair next to Garrett Crochet to create a dominant onetwo punch in the starting rotation for the Boston Red Sox. So, we got a tweet from Jeff Passen and really it was Tyler Milikin that went on to paraphrase it and give us a few of the quotes, a few lines of it and then he went on to subweet the original tweet with the actual article. That’s what you see here. If you click on it, it takes you to an ESPN article written and published by Jeff Passen, the one and only. And he goes on to break down basically every team and what they should be looking to acquire this off seasonason and really what name is sticking out to them. For the Boston Red Sox, it was none other than Joe Ryan. Now, this is not a surprise. Joe Ryan has been in connections to the Red Sox ever since what, a month before the trade deadline of this past season. There was a lot of rumors, there was a lot of conversations, and there was a lot of speculation. Obviously, it played out the way it did. But now that this regular season has now ended and we are into the free agency period, we are into the offseason where trades can be made. Free agents can go out there and be signed. This is this is where things are really going to start picking up. And if the Red Sox couldn’t get it done by the threat of a needle, and we got multiple reports about whether it was relatively close in happening, it was far distant, it was mediocre, it was it was we got a lot of different reports. We ended up finding out it was close, but it just didn’t quite happen between Boston and the Minnesota Twins. So, now from Jeff Pass, that is this is what we hear as quote the perfect transaction. At the trade deadline this past season, the Red Sox believe they were close to landing Joe Ryan, an elite arm who had his best year yet for the Twins in 2025. As long as the Red Sox Red Sox ownership keeps the financial clamps on chief baseball officer Craig Brezlo, he’ll need to get more creative in in improving a Red Sox team that already quite is already quite good. Revisiting what he missed at the deadline is simp is the simplest way to do so. And so much as the Twins say they would want him or want to win in 2026, they understand now is the time to strike. in dealing Boston another frontline starter to pair alongside Garrett Crochet is the way to do it. Trade from trade for Minnesota right-hander Joe Ryan. And that is the quote from Jeff Passen alluding to the idea that the Red Sox best opportunity this off seasonason to pair someone a frontline starter next to Garrett Crochet is by calling up the Minnesota Twins, the same people they got into a near trade at the deadline this past season to finally complete it and get both sides in a winning situation. Obviously, Minnesota is far from winning. They traded away everybody but Byron Buckton and Joe Ryan. Joe Ryan was on the brink of being traded. Everyone else was out of there. Went to Chicago. They went to LA. All over the place, different teams went and shopped around the Minnesota Twins. And the Twins were answering every call. They just didn’t move Joe Ryan. They didn’t move Byron Buckton. So, going into next season, what could you really expect from this team? They’re not going to be able to fully reset in just one off season by going out there and signing every free agent available. It’s not going to happen. Yes, they could go out there and make a splash, but are they going to be able to go out there and be make enough substantial moves that are going to put them in a position where they could legitimately contend next season? Odds are, and I mean the vast majority of the odds are, absolutely not. So, why not take the goods that Boston is going to give you and send that frontline starter to Boston? And yes, Jeff Pass stated that Joe Ryan was coming off his best season in 2025. If you look at the underlying metrics, they aren’t great. Joe Ryan missed a little bit of time. He has in his career dealing with a groin injury as well as a shoulder issue. But he has been relatively healthy. He has a legit five pick five pitch mix. And he has arguably the best sweeper in the game of baseball. He’s up there with Matt Brash and a few others in a very very small pool of players with a a horizontal breaking slider that is simply comical. Joe Ryan actually won on Pitching Ninja. If you don’t know who they are, please look them up on any social media or on the internet in general. They’re one of the best content pages when it comes to just filthy pitching. They’re very insightful. They are very, very knowledgeable and they’re very good with their content. And they awarded Joe Ryan with the nastiest slider of the year because I believe it broke 21 in horizontally. It was a Frisbee. It looked like he was throwing a whiffle ball in blitz ball. It It was funny. It really was. And it obviously was in a major league baseball game against major league talent and he made the batter look absolutely silly as he would with absolutely anybody that decided to get in the box and he decided to throw that pitch because it was gross. Joe Ryan’s contract situation is interesting. He he has avoided arbitration for the last three years with the Minnesota Twins after being traded for by the Twins from the Tampa Bay Rays as the Rays once again traded away another great talent just before he decided to hit his peak. And the last two things we’re going to acknowledge are both another sets of quotes, both from John Morsy, the one and only who allegedly broke the news the first time back at the trade deadline. But he goes on to answer this question on MLB Network. Which star player is most likely to be traded this off season? John Morsey’s answer was simply Joe Ryan and he went on to elaborate about the Boston Red Sox and what took place at this last year’s deadline during last regular season and how Minnesota’s in a very interesting spot and they like I mentioned earlier are not going to be able to go out there and reset their entire team in a single off season. So in order to trade someone like Joe Ryan and with the case of trading Joe Ryan, they’re going to be able to reset financially as well as with a bunch of young talent in that farm system coming from Boston as well as maybe a major league ready player in Willard Breu or Jiren Durant depending on the overall price tag for Joe Ryan. Don’t get me wrong, there are a lot of of very very very quality starting pitchers on the market this off seasonason both via free agency as well as the trade market as we all know and it seems like teams as well as involving the Red Sox are going to be very much not only in Joe Ryan but the ample amount of starting pitchers including Freddy Peralta and others that could be available via trade this off seasonason. Joe Ryan seems like one of the more intriguing pieces, only 29 years of age with a legit five pitch mix. Coming off one of his better seasons, plugging him into a system where he’s going to get four and a half to five and a half, maybe even six runs a game from his offense, as well as playing alongside guys like Dar Crochet and Brian Beo, as well as a bunch of young guys like Early and Tulli. This is a really, really good matchup for all parties included when it comes to Joe Ryan and the Boston Red Sox organization. I can’t wait to see how it all plays out. Let me know down below what are your overall thoughts and opinions on Joe Ryan and do you think the Boston Red Sox should make him the number one starting pitching target this off seasonason? I’ll see you guys on the next episode of Red Sox Digest. Thank you guys for watching.
Houston Kellman breaks down the newest reports from top MLB insiders Jeff Passan and Jon Morosi on how the Red Sox and Joe Ryan could be the perfect match this offseason.
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We need a great bullpen