{"id":545417,"date":"2026-01-30T06:26:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T06:26:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/545417\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T06:26:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T06:26:15","slug":"dodgers-sign-brother-of-a-pitcher-already-on-their-roster-to-a-free-agent-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/545417\/","title":{"rendered":"Dodgers sign brother of a pitcher already on their roster to a free agent contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/mlb\/los-angeles-dodgers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Los Angeles Dodgers<\/a> are bringing some brotherly love to L.A.<\/p>\n<p>The Dodgers already employed a right-handed pitcher named River Ryan. Now they&#8217;ve signed his brother, another righty pitcher, Ryder Ryan.<\/p>\n<p>The news came from <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/FabianArdaya\/status\/2017019242517090543\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Athletic&#8217;s Fabian Ardaya<\/a> on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>If Ryder Ryan makes the MLB roster, he&#8217;ll make $800,000, per Ardaya.<\/p>\n<p>River is the younger brother, 27 years old. He pitched in four games for the Dodgers in 2024, his only action at the MLB level, putting up a 1.33 ERA.<\/p>\n<p>MORE:\u00a0<a target=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/mlb\/cleveland-guardians\/news\/how-guardians-jose-ramirez-pace-cleveland-derek-jeter\/4f853a182bc8cfe42b7f0aa7\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">How Jose Ramirez is on pace to become Cleveland&#8217;s Derek Jeter<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ryder, 30, has thrown in 16 games at the MLB level, with Seattle in 2023 and then Pittsburgh in 2024. Overall, he has a 5.40 ERA at the MLB level.<\/p>\n<p>The brother duo is from North Carolina.<\/p>\n<p>Ryder went to the University of North Carolina and was a 30th-round pick by Cleveland in the 2016 MLB Draft.<\/p>\n<p>River went to the smaller UNC-Pembroke, and he was an 11th-round pick by the Padres in the 2021 MLB Draft.<\/p>\n<p>MORE:\u00a0<a target=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/mlb\/pittsburgh-pirates\/news\/pirates-paul-skenes-new-pitch\/56962ae35deb32c3355b5bc1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Paul Skenes has added a new pitch<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now, they&#8217;ve both found their way to the Dodgers organization.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a decent chance they both open the season at Triple-A Oklahoma City, which would be cool.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;d obviously be even cooler if they both found their way to the Dodgers&#8217; MLB bullpen.<\/p>\n<p>More MLB news:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Los Angeles Dodgers are bringing some brotherly love to L.A. The Dodgers already employed a right-handed pitcher&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":545418,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2406],"tags":[5,39,1165,4332,4333,774,57,3224,4331,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-545417","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles-dodgers","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-dodgers","10":"tag-la","11":"tag-la-dodgers","12":"tag-ladodgers","13":"tag-los-angeles","14":"tag-los-angeles-dodgers","15":"tag-losangeles","16":"tag-losangelesdodgers","17":"tag-mlb"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/115982629829858392","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=545417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545417\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/545418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=545417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=545417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=545417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}