The Dodgers announced that right-hander Joe Kelly has been placed on the 15-day injured list due to inflammation in his right forearm. The placement is retroactive to August 10, a day after Kelly’s last outing — a scoreless inning of work against the Diamondbacks during a 2-0 Dodgers victory.
Acquired in a big pre-deadline deal with the White Sox, Kelly has yet to allow a run over his four appearances and 3 2/3 innings in Dodger Blue, with huge strikeout (50%) and walk (21.7%) rates over this limited sample size. It has been an early reversal of his pre-trade numbers with the Sox, as Kelly had a rather unlucky 4.97 ERA despite some impressive peripheral numbers.
Los Angeles traded for Kelly to add some veteran experience and depth to a bullpen that has been heavily utilized this season, as the Dodgers rank eighth in the league in reliever innings. Injuries to the rotation have put an extra strain on the relief corps, which is why L.A. obtained Kelly and Lance Lynn from Chicago to help bolster both sides of the pitching staff. Kelly is now the 12th pitcher currently on the Dodgers’ IL, though the club has been able to weather the storm, winning 11 of its last 12 games.
This is Kelly’s eighth IL trip since the start of the 2020 campaign, and the third of this season —he previously had minimal 15-day absences with a groin strain and elbow inflammation while with the White Sox. Any forearm or elbow injury will be treated with particular caution, though if it is just inflammation rather than anything more serious (and Kelly and the Dodgers have had a few days to evaluate the issue), it is possible Kelly might again only miss a minimal amount of time.
He has been injured so much in his career
No doubt his max velocity approach to pitching has contributed to the injuries. When will teams learn that causes injuries more often than pitching more than an inning in a game.
And I have to laugh at the Red Sox fans here who use 4 pitchers on their IL as an excuse for all the losing. Dodgers have 3 times as many pitcher injuries and yet don’t feel the need to acquire crappy rejects discarded by other teams, and the Dodgers are winning like crazy – how about that!
FPG… yet don’t feel the need to acquire crappy rejects discarded by other teams,… Brais and I thank you..we know you have our back..LOL!!!
Olmtiant – Of course! He has the great track record, especially 2018. He just needed to get on a team that would know how to fix and use him.
Bulletin: the Dodgers have acquired as many crappy reject pitchers as any team, probably more. But why am I telling someone who knows more about player health than the people who pay them millions of dollars?
Blue – I just looked at every active Dodger pitcher’s career ERA, thank you so much for the great laugh. If only you knew the career ERA’s of the crappy pitchers that Bloom has acquired. I still can’t stop smiling.
As for knowing about player health, how wonderful that the current group of highly paid experts are more geniusy than the prior groups of highly paid experts.
In fact so geniusy that there’s zero chance the next group of highly paid experts will ever change the approach to pitcher health, right?
Because of all the different groups of highly paid experts during the 125+ years of MLB, THIS current group of highly paid experts is the only one that REALLY knows best … and the record number of pitcher injuries proves that, correct?
Thank you for the highly entertaining discussion.
Karma for that guy. He’s always been a fire starter to other teams. And throws at players heads. Dodgers will be fine this post season without him.
I’m just stunned. Guy is such a warrior.
Joe Kelly is a clown.
Dodger legend you mean.
He tries to injure people to please the clapping seals in the crowd, he is a clown.
Launching fastballs at people no one likes
I don’t like Altuve for cheating and then the commissioner telling him it was fine if he cheated. But I don’t want to see the dude drinking from a straw the rest of his life because some clown wants to appease some sadistic, brainless morons in the crowd.
Tatis used some cream to try to get back to action sooner after his moronic bike riding stunts. He paid the price and people in SD love him. Kelly tries to injure him just to appease some sadistic people in the crowd. He just needs to go.
Thought it was Correa he nailed. Then again, kinda hard to keep all the despicable A-troles straight
And it’s another beautiful sunny day in Los Angeles aka La-La Land. The California girls are at the beach and the waves are glistening.
Are they real girls? Or Santa Monica Blvd girls?
It’s Joever, the NL West has fallen
Strained tongue.
Here comes TJ. So sad
Bingo. Forearm woes generally lead to TJ.
Generally?
Not as sad as the Madres’ performance in Phoenix this weekend.
This guy is such an unlikable troll.
Madras still under .500?
People can rip on the Padres all they want, but they are the 3 time defending champions of “winning the off season”. The regular season and playoffs?…Not so much.
Madres still under .500?
What a little weenie boy
Kershaw got his annual vacation in. Now Kelly books two weeks on holiday. Bueler and Treinen continue to get ready for September and October. This stuff is all planned, folks.
Nice theory. Kelly was hurt, as anyone watching the game could plainly see. He came out in the middle of an AB.
This is a joke. He probably makes more $ per inning than any other pitcher. Except
Maybe deGrom. Lmao….
he was seen walking w an armful of double double animal style cheeseburgers in his right arm and reaching across w his left for the keys. tough move for anyone.
In N Out is overrated. Better than McDonalds, just under Wendy’s.
Of course he’ll be totally fine. The Dodgers shouldn’t even have him but they’re so desperate to buy anyone they can just because they can and now of course he tries harder and does better for them. So sick of this fake tough loser Kelly.