Why is Joe kelly not a starter???While Steven Wright is?.....
Why is Joe kelly not a starter???While Steven Wright is?.....
Because he sucked as a starterOriginally Posted by Dalas21000
Because Wright was a great starter last year.
Two great reasons.
Because Joe Kelly has not figured out how to pitch yet. He has the stuff but no idea how to use it. Yesterdays debacle, while the entire bullpen stunk it up, was a great example.
Kelly needs to get his mechanics figured out, another outing like that and he could be back at Pawtucket.
Joe Kelly may never figure his mechanics out. Something just doesn't seem to click with this guy.
If Thronburg can't come back and pitch effective like he did with the Milwaukee, this will be one of the worse bullpens in baseball. If him and Smith come back and pitch good they will be fine. We will see what happened yesterday more and more. This will keep happening until roles become more defined.
It's just typical Joe Kelly can't throw strikes consistently under pressure. He's so up and down. IMO the last guy you want in there with runners on base.
Kelly surrendered a single ER in his last 15 innings last year. From July 25 to Oct his ERA was 1.02 and for the year his WHIP was .500.
Joe Kelly is not going anywhere any time soon. As a RP he is fine; as a SP, not so much.
Kelly has been pitching very well in relief. One bad outing and you are a bum ?
He is down on the depth chart right now behind Barnes and Hembree. One thing managers don't like is walks, in spring training he was walking a lot of hitters and yesterday he walked two in a crucial spot.
His command seems to come and go I could very much see Farrell letting him figure it out in Pawtucket.
He was pitching well last year, he needs to get his command back.
Besides Koji, I can't recall a single RPer whose command doesn't "come and go". Kimbrel has no command at all; should he be sent down too? And didn't Hembree walk two guys yesterday before Kelly walked in the winning run? Kelly isn't going anywhere, at least until Smith and Thornburg are back.
To say Kimbrel has no command is ridiculous, to say Kelly hasn't battled this for years and is up and down is crazy.
The reason why Farrell backtracked from making him the eighth inning guy while Thornburg is out, is because his mechanics are out of whack right now.
Kimbrel had little command of his curve ball and occasionally has no command over his fast ball.
It's a mere moment in a man's life between the All-Star game and the Old Timer's game.
-Vin Scully
Kimbrels command may be off on a certain day, Kelly's problems seem to linger. He really struggled at the end of spring training, and the last two years he was sent to Pawtucket to figure it out.
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