Joe Kelly is Trying Something New

Photo by: Stacie WheelerThe low point of Joe Kelly‘s season came on May 27th against the New York Mets. Pitching for the first time in nine days and far-removed from his desired high-leverage relief role, Kelly faced three batters. All three reached base. Two of them scored.

The disastrous appearance snapped a streak of four straight good outings for Kelly, another example of his maddening inconsistency. After the game, Twitter was full of calls to release Kelly; his 8.83 ERA in his first 17-1/3 innings pitched as a Dodger made his contract look like a lost cause already. When combining his early 2019 results with his 2018 playoff results, the sample upon which the Dodgers seemed to bet, the…