Ryan Pressly has announced his retirement from baseball
January 17, 2026
Ryan Pressly has announced his retirement from baseball
12 comments
The bad man can’t get us any more.
I’d like to thank him for all the late game heart attacks he gave us. Really helped me prepare for this year’s Cardiac Bears!
Will forever be remembered for the 8 ER implosion
Stressly can restly
He lost it in the last 3 games before being DFA’d, but people forget that after the implosion vs SFG, he was absolute nails for 2.5 months. Only gave up 4 ER in 27 appearance and didn’t give up an ER in 25 of those and had a 1.42 ERA.
Certainly one of the Cubs ever
Who?
His arm retired half way through last season…
The problem I had with the trade is that the warning signs were evident but Jed made the move anyway. Velocity was down. Hard contact % was way up.
By this point Jed had a reputation of building good bullpens with under the radar moves. Trading for Pressly was unnecessary at best, and ended disastrous.
My favorite memory of his? That his runout song from the bullpen was “God’s Gonna Cut You Down.” Thinking of that distracts me from…the whole pitching of it all.
Enjoy retirement, man. Wish the stint here had gone better but it is what it is.
Jed Hoyer gave this man $8 million to come to Chicago and be absolutely terrible.
12 comments
The bad man can’t get us any more.
I’d like to thank him for all the late game heart attacks he gave us. Really helped me prepare for this year’s Cardiac Bears!
Will forever be remembered for the 8 ER implosion
Stressly can restly
He lost it in the last 3 games before being DFA’d, but people forget that after the implosion vs SFG, he was absolute nails for 2.5 months. Only gave up 4 ER in 27 appearance and didn’t give up an ER in 25 of those and had a 1.42 ERA.
Certainly one of the Cubs ever
Who?
His arm retired half way through last season…
The problem I had with the trade is that the warning signs were evident but Jed made the move anyway. Velocity was down. Hard contact % was way up.
By this point Jed had a reputation of building good bullpens with under the radar moves. Trading for Pressly was unnecessary at best, and ended disastrous.
My favorite memory of his? That his runout song from the bullpen was “God’s Gonna Cut You Down.” Thinking of that distracts me from…the whole pitching of it all.
Enjoy retirement, man. Wish the stint here had gone better but it is what it is.
Jed Hoyer gave this man $8 million to come to Chicago and be absolutely terrible.