The Triple-A Louisville club under Cincinnati announced Kelly’s contract on the 8th (Korea Standard Time) and introduced him as the son of coach Pat Kelly (69). He added that for the first time in Louisville’s club history, the father and son were together in one team.
The Minor League website also reported that pitcher Casey Kelly, the son of manager Pat Kelly, has joined the Louisville Batts, and that Kelly will be managing his son for the first time. It is also the first time that Kelly and his son will be together on a professional stage.
His father Pat Kelly is the seventh manager in the history of minor leagues to have 2,000 wins. He played in three games for the Toronto Blue Jays in 1980, but he has been a manager for 33 seasons with 16 minor league teams since 1986.
In the game on the 12th of last month, he achieved 2,000 wins in the minor league, and his son Kelly, who was in Korea at the time, sent a congratulatory message by video. Since then, Kelly has been released by LG and left Korea for six years and returned to the U.S., where he will start anew with his father’s team.
Kelly will take the mound for the first time in his father’s team as a starting pitcher against Charlotte on Saturday. Kelly, who spent the last six years in Korea, will play in the U.S. for the first time in a long time since 2018. It is not easy to return to the Major League, but he needs to show his competitiveness in the rest of the season to get a chance in other leagues.
Realistically, a big league call-up is not easy in Cincinnati. Cincinnati’s rotation of five starting pitchers is going back to Hunter Green, Andrew Abbot, Nick Rodolo, Nick Martinez and Carson Spears. Even if there are injuries, young pitchers such as Justus Sheffield and Lion Richardson are on the list of priority players in Triple-A.
Major League Trade Rumors (MLBTR), which reported the news of Kelly’s contract, said, “Kelly has a way to return to the U.S. for the first time since 2018, but he has to compete fiercely to reach the Major League.” “If Kelly shows strong performance in the minor leagues, he will be able to raise interest in him ahead of the 2025 season even if he does not receive a major league opportunity this year.”
Kelly was a former prospect who was drafted by the Boston Red Sox with the 30th overall pick in the first round in the 2008 draft. Although he was recognized for his talent as a shortstop at the time of his nomination, he focused on pitching. In December 2010, he was traded to the San Diego Padres along with Anthony Rizzo in return for slugger Andrian Gonzalez, and in 2012, he made his Major League debut there.
He started all six games in the first year, but failed to meet expectations with 2-3 losses and 6.21 ERA, and underwent Tommy John surgery the following spring due to elbow pain. He returned to the Major League in 2015 after rehabilitation, but lost two games (two starts) and had a 7.94 ERA, and was traded to the Atlanta Braves after the season.
However, he was sluggish in 2016 with three losses and an earned run average of 5.82 in 10 games (first starter), and remained in the minor leagues in 2017. After signing a minor contract with the San Francisco Giants in 2018, he had a chance to call up and posted a decent performance with seven games (three starters) with three losses and an earned run average of 3.04. His overall performance in the four seasons of the Major League was 2 wins and 11 losses with an earned run average of 5.46 strikeouts in 26 games (12 starts and 85 ⅔ innings).
Although he did not have much success in the Major League, he opened an era of success in the KBO League from 2019. From 2019 to July this year, he played in a total of 163 games (989 ⅓ innings) for six seasons with LG, 73 wins and 46 losses with an ERA of 3.25 strikeouts. He ranked third in overall wins and innings and fourth in strikeouts in the KBO League history. He became the most prolific winner (16 wins) in 2022, becoming LG’s longest-serving foreign player by garnering double-digit wins for five consecutive years.토토사이트 순위
He was also strong in big games with four wins and one loss and an earned run average of 2.08 in eight postseason games, but became the winning pitcher in Game 5 of the Korean Series last year, bringing LG to the top in 29 years. Although he renewed his contract in recognition of his victory, he struggled with five wins and eight losses and an earned run average of 4.51 in 19 games this year, and LG recruited Elijah Rodriguez and released Kelly. After the game against Doosan Bears in Jamsil on April 20 was played without a rain, he said goodbye to his team and fans through a farewell ceremony.