We couldn't have hit it I'm sure you're the enemy, but how far is Kelly FA? 100 million dollars. It's not a dream
Aug 26, 2025
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Kelly led the Cleveland Guardians to a 5-0 victory in a home game held at Globe Life Field on the 25th (Korea time) by blocking the Cleveland Guardians with four hits, two walks and eight strikeouts in seven innings.
Texas, which swept three consecutive games against Cleveland with Kelly at the forefront, returned to a winning percentage of .500 with 66 wins and 66 losses. The team ranks third in the AL West, and fifth in the wild card category. However, it is still difficult to catch up with the Seattle Mariners, who ranks third in the wild card category, with 4.5 games to play.
The FanGraphs suggested an 11.2% chance of Texas advancing to the playoffs with 30 games remaining.
Texas acquired Kelly through a trade with the Arizona Diamondbacks on the 1st. Since then, Texas has struggled with a 9-13 record. Since the opening of the second half of the year, he has had a comfortable winning rate of 50% to 6 games, including 2 consecutive wins and 6 consecutive wins, but now it is too much to maintain 50%. In other words, Texas is unlikely to play baseball this fall.
Kelly also moved with the dream of becoming a fall baseball player, but for now, it is highly likely that the season will be finished by the end of September. Kelly pitched 22 games for Arizona this season, going 9-6 with a 3.22 ERA and 29 innings in five games for Texas, marking 1-1 with a 3.10 ERA.
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Kelly's fastball speed of 96 pitches was up to 92.8 miles and an average of 90.7 miles, 1.1 miles slower than usual. Kelly is not the type to compete with speed anyway. The main weapons are the ever-changing ball combination and the control of the awl. On this day, changeups, curves, and cutters were especially powerful.
MLB.com recalled Game 2 of the World Series on October 29, 2023, while delivering Kelly's good pitching. At that time, the Arizona starter was Kelly, and he faced Texas at Globe Life Field. At that time, he gave Arizona a victory with three hits, nine strikeouts, and one run in seven innings. Kelly's only victory in the World Series that year was Arizona's.
However, he became a winning pitcher for Texas at the same place in a year and 10 months.
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Texas manager Bruce Bochy said `Kelly has a pitching style that I like. Didn't you witness how good he pitched against us at the time. Stay calm. It has a good constraint change and puts it at the desired point. He also reads the swing of the opponent's batter."
"Kelly has long been a really good pitcher in the major leagues. There was no ball to throw the changeup in the same trajectory as a fastball while using a diagonal corner walk against our left-handed hitters," he praised.
Kelly, who was born in October 1988 and is 36 years old this year, will enter the FA market at the end of this year. At the current pace, the big hit is a given. A three- to four-year contract seems easy. It is safe to say that the average annual salary has already exceeded $20 million.
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
