Right -handed Joe Kelly This year nowhere has it not been signed, despite the fact that he expressed a wish to pitch this year. Per Robert Murray from FansizededKelly will soon throw at the Dodgers to see if that club is willing to give him a deal.
Kelly, 37, threw for the Dodgers from 2019 to 2021 and then again from the Deadline from 2023 to the end of 2024. The first Stint was more successful than the second. From 2019 to 2021, Kelly had a 3.59 run average earned more than 105 1/3 innings for the Dodgers. He eliminated 26.9% of the battery people and received grounders with a clip of 59.9%.
In 2023 he only threw 10 1/3 innings for the Dodgers and spent some time on the wounded list as a result of forearmitis. Last year, right shoulder injuries put him on the IL several times. He threw 32 innings with a 4.78 ERA, 24.5% strikeout percentage and 47.1% ground ball percentage. That shoulder prevented him from threw in the late season.
Although he wants to come back this year, it doesn’t seem like he has given himself a lot of negotiation boom. He told Stupid territory Last month that “if I come back healthy, I only play for one team, and those are the Dodgers.”
Because he is not signed, it does not seem like the Dodgers have been particularly interested, although they are now more open to it. They recently placed Tanner Scott” Michael Kopech And Evan Phillips On the il. Phillips was operated on Tommy John and is ready for the year. Kopech has undergone meniscus operation and goes out for a while. Scott just seems to have some elbow inflammation, but he is in the early days of his IL -Stint. BruSdar Graterol This year still did not threw after having undergone a shoulder operation last year. Blake trains I have just returned from a long il -stint because of the forearm tightness.
The Dodgers brought these injuries to the market for bullpen -upgrades prior to this year’s deadline. Kelly would not be sure because of his age, recent shoulder problems and the fact that he did not throw this year. Even if he would sign, he would probably be sent to the minors for a disaster-up period. He would not solve their bullpen problems and he will not be the only movement they make in that department, but you can never have too much pitching and he wants to play for them. He should be feasible for a cheap deal, maybe even a minor league pact.
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