Joe Kelly’s first season with the Dodgers was more down than up, but a mid-season stretch showed promise for the flame-throwing right-hander. Unfortunately, that promise went up in smoke when the Nationals and Howie Kendrick connected on a season-ending gut punch last October.
Thankfully Kelly wasn’t ready to throw in the towel.
Dodgers fans have seen first hand what the Corona native can do when he’s right. It turns out that he was wrong for most of the 2019 season. Both in body and with his pitches. While he remains reluctant to dive into the body issues — a sort of “overall-body-itus” — he was an open book when talking about his pitches.