Newborn, WBC prep helped Twins starter Joe Ryan tune out the ‘unknown’ in offseason

FORT MYERS, Fla. — For a brief period of time, as teammate after teammate got shipped away on trade deadline day last July, Joe Ryan was convinced he had been traded, too, the result of an erroneous post on social media that suggested he was headed to the Boston Red Sox. Minutes later, Ryan found out that the trade didn’t happen. He was still a Twin. But as the Twins reached the offseason, there were questions about how they might proceed from there, and there were some who thought they might continue tearing down their roster by trading...