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Joe Kelly

Los Angeles Dodgers National League West

Age: 36
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 1"
Weight: 174 lb

Born: June 9, 1988 in Anaheim, CA, United States
MLB debut: June 10, 2012
Drafted: 2009, round 3
College: UC Riverside
High school: Corona
Salary, 2024: $9M

dbWAR: 9.2
IP: 32.0
ERA: 4.78
FIP: 4.57
K/9: 9.8
FIP−: 112

Joe Kelly was a relief pitcher for the Los Angeles Dodgers. In 2024 he struck out 35 batters over 32.0 innings across 35 appearances, going 1-1. His ERA of 4.78 was 17.2% higher than the league average of 4.08 — 16th of 21 on his team, and 393rd of 541 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 4.57 FIP suggests the ERA was no fluke. He missed bats on 22.0% of swings (10.1% of every pitch he threw), walked 11.2% of the batters he faced and struck out 24.5%. His -0.0 dbWAR is built from that FIP rather than runs allowed, so it credits him for what he controls and not for the defence behind him.

League context

Percentile among qualified pitchers, 2024 regular season.

FIP4.57

K/99.8

WHIP1.47

WAR-.0

WAR by season

Pitching Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only — postseason games are listed separately below.


2024	LAD	35	0	32.0	1	1	0	31	17	35	16	4.78	4.57	1.47	9.8	4.5	117	112	-0.0
2023	CWS/LAD	42	0	39.1	2	5	1	29	18	60	18	4.12	2.72	1.19	13.7	4.1	95	63	1.0
2022	CWS	43	1	37.0	1	3	1	36	25	53	23	6.08	3.06	1.59	12.9	5.6	153	77	0.7
2021	LAD	48	0	44.0	2	0	2	28	14	50	15	2.86	3.08	0.98	10.2	3.1	67	72	0.9
2020	LAD	12	1	10.0	0	0	0	8	2	9	7	1.80	3.49	1.50	8.1	6.3	40	78	0.2
2019	LAD	55	0	51.1	5	4	1	49	26	62	22	4.56	3.78	1.38	10.9	3.9	101	84	0.7
2018	BOS	73	0	65.2	4	2	2	57	32	68	32	4.39	3.57	1.36	9.3	4.4	106	86	0.9
2017	BOS	54	0	58.0	4	1	0	42	18	52	27	2.79	3.49	1.19	8.1	4.2	64	80	0.9
2016	BOS	20	6	40.0	4	0	0	44	23	48	24	5.17	4.32	1.70	10.8	5.4	124	103	0.3
2015	BOS	25	25	134.1	10	6	0	145	72	110	49	4.82	4.18	1.44	7.4	3.3	122	105	1.4
2014	BOS/STL	17	17	96.1	6	4	0	88	45	66	42	4.20	4.37	1.35	6.2	3.9	112	117	0.4
2013	STL	37	15	124.0	10	5	0	124	37	79	44	2.69	4.01	1.35	5.7	3.2	69	104	0.7
2012	STL	24	16	107.0	5	7	0	112	42	75	36	3.53	4.00	1.38	6.3	3.0	88	100	1.0

Batting Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only — postseason games are listed separately below.


2021	LAD	3	3	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	0.0%	.000	-0.8	-122	-0.0
2019	LAD	3	3	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	—	0.0%	66.7%	.000	-0.8	-122	-0.0
2015	BOS	2	5	1	1	0	2	.200	.200	.200	.000	.333	0.0%	40.0%	.176	-0.6	1	0.0
2014	STL/BOS	9	18	4	0	1	2	.250	.294	.313	.063	.286	0.0%	11.1%	.277	-0.5	72	0.2
2013	STL	20	40	5	2	0	8	.152	.171	.182	.030	.192	0.0%	20.0%	.159	-4.8	-11	0.0
2012	STL	20	35	5	2	0	13	.152	.152	.212	.061	.250	0.0%	37.1%	.158	-4.4	-10	0.1

Separate from the regular season

Postseason Postseason

Wild Card through World Series. These games are counted on their own: none of them are in the regular-season tables, career totals, league context, leaderboards or dbWAR on this page.

Postseason pitching

Postseason Joe Kelly's postseason pitching, by October and round. Not part of any regular-season figure on this page.
Season	Team	Round	G	GS	IP	W	L	SV	H	ER	HR	BB	SO	ERA	WHIP	K/9
2023 Post	LAD	NLDS	1	0	1.2	0	0	0	2	0	0	1	3	0.00	1.80	16.2
2021 Post	LAD	Postseason total	7	1	5.1	1	0	0	5	3	1	1	5	5.06	1.13	8.4
		Wild Card	1	0	0.2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0.00	0.00	13.5
		NLDS	2	0	1.2	1	0	0	3	1	0	1	0	5.40	2.40	0.0
		NLCS	4	1	3.0	0	0	0	2	2	1	0	4	6.00	0.67	12.0
2020 Post	LAD	Postseason total	5	0	3.2	0	0	1	4	1	0	2	3	2.45	1.64	7.4
		NLDS	1	0	0.1	0	0	1	0	0	0	2	0	0.00	6.00	0.0
		NLCS	2	0	1.1	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0.00	1.50	0.0
		World Series	2	0	2.0	0	0	0	2	1	0	0	3	4.50	1.00	13.5
2019 Post	LAD	NLDS	3	0	2.1	0	1	0	5	6	1	5	4	23.14	4.29	15.4
2018 Post	BOS	Postseason total	9	0	11.1	2	1	0	8	1	0	0	13	0.79	0.71	10.3
		ALDS	1	0	2.1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	0.00	0.43	3.9
		ALCS	3	0	3.0	1	1	0	3	1	0	0	2	3.00	1.00	6.0
		World Series	5	0	6.0	1	0	0	4	0	0	0	10	0.00	0.67	15.0
2017 Post	BOS	ALDS	2	0	2.2	1	0	0	4	0	0	0	1	0.00	1.50	3.4
2016 Post	BOS	ALDS	3	0	3.2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0.00	0.00	7.4
2013 Post	STL	Postseason total	4	4	21.2	0	1	0	20	10	2	9	19	4.15	1.34	7.9
		NLDS	1	1	5.1	0	0	0	5	2	0	4	5	3.38	1.69	8.4
		NLCS	2	2	11.0	0	1	0	13	6	2	2	8	4.91	1.36	6.5
		World Series	1	1	5.1	0	0	0	2	2	0	3	6	3.38	0.94	10.1
2012 Post	STL	Postseason total	7	0	7.2	0	0	0	6	2	0	4	5	2.35	1.30	5.9
		NLDS	3	0	3.2	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	3	0.00	0.27	7.4
		NLCS	4	0	4.0	0	0	0	6	2	0	3	2	4.50	2.25	4.5
Career		Postseason total · 9 Octobers	41	5	60.0	4	3	1	54	23	4	22	56	3.45	1.27	8.4

Postseason batting

Postseason Joe Kelly's postseason batting, by October and round. Not part of any regular-season figure on this page.
Season	Team	Round	G	PA	AB	R	H	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS
2013 Post	STL	Postseason total	4	8	8	1	1	5	.125	.125	.125	.250
		NLDS	1	2	2	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000
		NLCS	2	4	4	1	1	2	.250	.250	.250	.500
		World Series	1	2	2	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000

Box-score and rate statistics only. wOBA, wRC+, FIP and dbWAR are measured against a full league season, and a postseason is a few teams playing each other for a month, so they are not computed for October.

Platoon splits

How left- and right-handed hitters fare against him.

Season

Opponent batting by the side the hitter bats from, 2024. Counted from play-by-play, so totals can differ from the box-score season line by a plate appearance or two.
Split	PA	AB	H	HR	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	wOBA	K%
vs LHB	72	56	15	1	11	21	.268	.414	.411	.370	29.2%
vs RHB	71	63	16	3	5	14	.254	.324	.413	.324	19.7%

Pitch sequencing

What Joe Kelly throws in each count, and what he follows each pitch with. Select any cell for the breakdown.

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Pitch arsenal

What he throws, how hard, how often it misses, and what hitters do with it.

Season


Sinker	29.3%	162	98.2	2,137	46.3%	9.5%	37	.270	.683
Four-Seam Fastball	24.3%	134	98.1	2,176	51.5%	15.9%	30	.300	.933
Slider	21.7%	120	90.1	2,870	47.5%	23.7%	31	.226	.681
Knuckle Curve	17.8%	98	87.3	3,006	44.9%	40.6%	11	—	—
Changeup	6.9%	38	88.4	2,077	42.1%	55.0%	10	—	—

Joe Kelly's arsenal by usage. Velocity is average release speed in mph, spin in rpm, and whiff rate is misses per swing — the cleanest single measure of whether a pitch beats hitters. BAA and OPS are what hitters did against each pitch, credited to the one that ended the plate appearance, and are left blank under 15 at-bats.

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How these are computed

wOBA uses linear weights measured from this season's own play-by-play rather than published constants, and wRC+ is park-adjusted against that same league. dbWAR is our own open implementation — not fWAR or bWAR — and the full derivation, including its simplifications, is on the methodology page.