Fansided · Sep 19, 2018
Ryan Pressly, a revelation for the Astros
The Astros best move during the trade deadline has been the acquisition of a certain reliever from Minnesota.
Ryan Pressly made his Astros debut on July 28th against the Rangers. It wasn’t a particularly noteworthy one as the former Twin surrendered a home run to Rougned Odor in the seventh inning. The end result was a 7-3 loss for Houston. It was also the beginning of a difficult stretch of home defeats.
Here is the interesting part of that game, though: Pressly finished with the second-highest average spin rate of any pitcher who threw at least ten pitches that day. In fact, only Ray Black of the Giants (2942 RPM) had a higher average spin rate than Pressly on July 28th (2783 RPM).