After struggling through a debut season with the Los Angeles Dodgers, Joe Kelly was confident he would be much improved in 2020. Kelly had recovered from knee, quad and arm trouble, and expected to be called upon in high-leverage situations.
That didn’t completely come to fruition as his season was interrupted before it truly got going. Kelly’s second appearance resulted in a benches-clearing incident with the Houston Astros. The right-hander pitched in five more games after that and wound up on the 10-day injured list due to shoulder inflammation.
Kelly to that point had thrown 6.