Twins ace Joe Ryan acknowledged this week that he thought he was packing his bags and heading to Boston at MLB’s trade deadline.
“I obviously thought I got traded for several minutes and then it was like, ‘Is this going to happen? What’s the deal?’ That was a weird mix of emotions,” Ryan told reporters, via MLB.com’s Matthew Leach. “I was with [reliever] Griffin [Jax] during that. It was just weird. Then he didn’t think he was going to get traded, and he got traded [while] I didn’t. It was weird. It was a lot. It felt like I was throwing an intense situation in a game.