Cubs’ Ryan Pressly made an offseason adjustment that he hopes will pay off with new team
Pressly is one of the favorites to pitch in the ninth inning for the Cubs.
MESA, Ariz. – Reliever Ryan Pressly could tell he was out of whack last season. He and the Astros identified the issue early, it was just a matter of finding enough time to address it.
“As a starter, you get four days to work on something,” Pressly said in a conversation with the Sun-Times. “But for a reliever, it’s just like, ‘Alright, let’s not try to do too much, because you might be in the game tonight.’ And, to [pitching coaches Joshua Miller and and Bill Murphy’s] credit, they were trying as hard as they could. It was just probably something that we needed to do in the offseason.”
Pressly still managed a 3.49 ERA, 25 holds and four saves as the Astros setup man last year. And by the time the Cubs traded for Pressly in late January, he was confident he had mostly cleaned up his mechanics.
