{"id":775911,"date":"2026-05-05T22:49:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T22:49:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/775911\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T22:49:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T22:49:15","slug":"after-clean-mri-joe-ryan-resumes-throwing-could-make-next-start-as-scheduled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/775911\/","title":{"rendered":"After clean MRI, Joe Ryan resumes throwing, could make next start as scheduled"},"content":{"rendered":"

WASHINGTON \u2014 First, Anthony Edwards miraculously returned early for the Minnesota Timberwolves. Now, it appears Joe Ryan could follow in his footsteps.<\/p>\n

Two days after he walked off the mound with right elbow soreness, the Minnesota Twins pitcher played catch at Nationals Park on Tuesday afternoon and was cleared to throw a bullpen the following day. If all goes well in Wednesday\u2019s session, Ryan will make his next scheduled start when the Twins play the Cleveland Guardians later this week.<\/p>\n

The Twins put their plan in motion after Ryan received a clean MRI showing no structural damage, and he was later cleared by the team\u2019s training and medical staffs.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s relief,\u201d Twins manager Derek Shelton said. \u201cThe eternal pessimist in me is saying I\u2019m going to wait until we get through (Wednesday) and go. But (Tuesday) was a really good sign because he threw well after having a conversation with him. He was able to throw his breaking balls and didn\u2019t feel anything. We had an MRI. There was no structural damage. Once you hear all those things, it makes you feel better, especially when it came after two hitters on Sunday. But overall, we\u2019re trending in the right direction.\u201d<\/p>\n

When Ryan walked off the mound after nine pitches<\/a> Sunday, panic set in for the organization and its fans. Only 11 weeks earlier, Pablo L\u00f3pez similarly walked off the mound in the middle of a Feb. 16 throwing session and signaled for the training staff, just as Ryan did when facing the Toronto Blue Jays. In that case, an MRI showed L\u00f3pez had a torn ulnar collateral ligament and would require season-ending Tommy John surgery.<\/p>\n

Ryan struck out the first batter he faced Sunday and then started to feel something unusual during a six-pitch walk of Toronto\u2019s Kazuma Okamoto. Rather than continue pitching, Ryan signaled to the dugout, and from there, he, Shelton and athletic trainer Nick Paparesta decided to end the outing.<\/p>\n

\"Joe<\/p>\n

\n Joe Ryan exited the Twins\u2019 game against the Blue Jays on Sunday in the first inning with elbow soreness in his right arm. (David Berding \/ Getty Images<\/p>\n

Before long, Ryan was in an MRI machine. He received the positive results before the end of the game and then waited for a consultation with team doctor Chris Camp, where he received further reassurance.<\/p>\n

\u201cI didn\u2019t feel too much discomfort,\u201d Ryan said. \u201cYou never know. The injuries I\u2019ve had in the past have kind of been \u2014 it wasn\u2019t this excruciating pain or anything crazy, and then I\u2019ve been optimistic on the other side and had bad results. This time around, having good results definitely was obviously a win-win and reassuring. You never know until the imaging comes back.\u201d<\/p>\n

Shelton praised Ryan for being in tune with his body highly enough to understand something was off. Shortly after L\u00f3pez suffered his injury in February, Ryan sensed lower back tightness and delayed his first start of the spring for more than two weeks. The 2025 All-Star also knew almost immediately that something was awry during an August 2024 incident and immediately left the game with an injury that resulted in a Grade 2 teres major strain that cost Ryan 49 games.<\/p>\n

Even as relieved as they currently feel, the Twins will be mindful of Ryan.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere will be a watchful eye,\u201d Shelton said. \u201cThe first thing you want with any of your players, or especially your pitchers, is if they feel something, especially in their arm, we want them to communicate it. We want to make sure we\u2019re not going to put him in harm\u2019s way. We will carefully monitor this situation.\u00a0The one really great thing about Joe is he is probably in tune with his body as any player I\u2019ve ever been around. He can articulate really well what he\u2019s feeling. \u2026 We will be very aware.\u201d<\/p>\n

The positive news on Ryan comes one day after Edwards stunned the NBA<\/a> with a quick return from a bone bruise and hyperextended left knee he suffered in the Timberwolves\u2019 opening playoff round. Originally expected to miss weeks, Edwards returned after nine days and scored 18 points on 8-of-13 shooting as Minnesota topped the heavily favored San Antonio Spurs 104-102 in Game 1 on Monday.<\/p>\n

Ryan ruled out that Edwards\u2019 showing provided extra motivation, but he loved the performance.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat was pretty fun to watch,\u201d Ryan said. \u201cWhat a beast.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ryan hopes to be back on the mound this weekend in Ohio. If the Twins kept their rotation in order, Ryan would be scheduled to pitch Saturday at Progressive Field.<\/p>\n

Ryan is confident in the plan the Twins established. He emerged from Tuesday\u2019s session feeling good and is optimistic about Wednesday.<\/p>\n

\u201cMake sure everything feels good (Wednesday) on the mound, and that\u2019s the main focus,\u201d Ryan said. \u201cAny time, yeah, you dodge a bullet there, you just are grateful for every day you get to come in and put the jersey. \u2026 It just felt good to be here.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON \u2014 First, Anthony Edwards miraculously returned early for the Minnesota Timberwolves. Now, it appears Joe Ryan could…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":775912,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[1287,1266,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-775911","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-minnesota-twins","9":"tag-mlb","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-united-states","12":"tag-unitedstates","13":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116524414924381573","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=775911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775911\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/775912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=775911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=775911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=775911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}