2024 overview
Rating: 6.67
MLB Stats: 13 G, 73.2 IP, 4.03 ERA, 4.25 FIP, 1.167 WHIP, 1.0 bWAR
Date of birth: October 14, 1988 (age 35 season)
Earnings: $8,500,000
2025 status: Team option for $7,000,000 exercised for final season of control
Merrill Kelly began 2023 by pitching as the innings-eating workhorse of the Team USA rotation for the World Baseball Classic, including starting the championship game against Team Japan. He followed that up with 177.2 innings of regular season ball, down from his previous season career high, but still good for 27th in all of baseball with regard to innings pitched, behind the likes of Zac Gallen, Logan Webb, Gerrit Cole, and Aaron Nola. In other words, he was…
