{"id":679224,"date":"2026-04-19T16:34:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T16:34:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/679224\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T16:34:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T16:34:15","slug":"kyle-snyder-sees-first-win-as-a-potential-turning-point-for-this-rays-pitcher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/679224\/","title":{"rendered":"Kyle Snyder Sees First Win as a Potential Turning Point For This Rays Pitcher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After missing the past two seasons due to a pair of significant injuries, Tampa Bay Rays starting pitcher Shane McClanahan picked up his first win of the season Tuesday night <a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/mlb\/rays\/onsi\/hot-streak-has-rays-rightfully-climbing-recent-mlb-power-rankings\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">on the road against the Chicago White Sox<\/a>, his first win since June 16, 2023, against the San Diego Padres.<\/p>\n<p>For Rays pitching coach Kyle Snyder, this outing against the White Sox represented something bigger\u2014a potential turning point in McClanahan\u2019s career.<\/p>\n<p>After everything McClanahan has endured, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/mlb\/rays\/onsi\/news\/rays-pitcher-coming-back-went-beyond-physical-recovery\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">both physically and mentally<\/a>, Snyder described what this moment likely meant for McClanahan.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe weight of the world probably feels like it&#8217;s been lifted off his shoulders on some level,\u201d Snyder said, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlb.com\/news\/shane-mcclanahan-first-win-since-2023\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">via Andy Martinez of MLB.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Kyle Snyder likes direction Shane McClanahan is heading in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After missing the past two seasons due to a pair of significant injuries, Tampa Bay Rays starting pitcher&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":679225,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2377],"tags":[5,4,297,2550,68,2551,2549],"class_list":{"0":"post-679224","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tampa-bay-rays","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-mlb","10":"tag-rays","11":"tag-tampa-bay","12":"tag-tampa-bay-rays","13":"tag-tampabay","14":"tag-tampabayrays"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116432343574560921","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679224","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=679224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679224\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/679225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=679224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=679224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=679224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}