Fort Myers, FLA. – Red sox Relief of right hand Zack Kelly He added a two -way fast ball to his repertoire in the low season.
The MLB, Zack Kelly, the program already launched one.
“The video game had it as three years ago,” said Kelly, who made his debut in the important league in 2022.
It is a pitch that he and the Red Sox discussed in the low season to “wrap with” and “see what it becomes”. He has thrown so far in the two appearances in spring.
“It arrives there,” Kelly said. “I think more and more I throw it, I see the improvement. I think it is something that I will only have to confuse and also try to find out the appearance of sequencing. Knowing when going there, when you have to go to four seams. It’s a job ongoing, but I like what it is so far.”
The right, which will turn 30 on March 3, ended by 2024 with an era 3.97 in 49 outings (56 ⅔ entrances). Mounted some dominant sections. He also fought just after the All-Star pause and again in September. Its time exceeded 2.58 to 3.97 during the final month.
“It was quite frustrating,” Kelly said. “Just because on August 31 you are sitting there with a time of two and a half. And suddenly, blink and barely under 4.00. And this is how it is as a relief. It was a sour taste. “”
But he said he also used this sour taste positively during the low season.
“I know I can compete and I was happy with the year I had,” Kelly said. “I also had this motivation because I got my (explosive) kicking the last week of the season. So it was a good mix of both. I was able to do it for a good low season.”
Kelly was pleased to launch most of the tickets he has in a season since 2019, when he was a double A. Triple-a worldPutting it at 69 ⅓ Tickets in total last year.
Keeping -being healthy during the 2024 season was very important to him after he underwent a transposition review of the Ulnar nerve to the right elbow by 2023.
“It was a really big goal, just to keep me and I did it,” Kelly said. “I was excited about this and I was happy with how I competed for most of the year. I think towards the end of the queue I was a little broken down. So I think it only caused a few things of control.”
Lack of command was usually the problem when he fought last year. He promised 4.3 walks by nine tickets, a statistics that must improve by 2025.
“I honestly think things marked the end,” Kelly said. “Look at the Middle Velos per month. Towards July, at the end of July and August, it began to hit the 99th. But I think especially in September I started not commanding the ball too. “”
Kelly said that the program at MLB does not play much anymore.
“I used to enjoy playing video games, but now being a father and returning home so late (after the games), I almost never do,” he said.
But he discovered Zack Kelly MLB player, the show player throwing his two customs on his own. It was not someone who spoke to him.
“I went to touch it, and I liked it,” Oh, that’s new. Lane, “Kelly said.
Kelly had launched a rapid two -way ball in high school, at university and his minor league career before being part of the video game.
“I used to throw it,” he said. “I only launched a fast two -sided ball. In high school until I think it was 2019. I liked the feeling of being inside the seams instead of four actions. I simply felt better.”
But during his time in the Angels Minor League system, the launch department encouraged Kelly to go to a rapid four -seam ball.
“It was when the phenomenon of the four bands began, at the top of the area, the vertical rupture phenomenon began for us,” Kelly said. “So we scraped it completely. And now we try it again.
“It’s now like sweeping,” Kelly added. “It’s like the trends that develop over the years when I am sure in 2026, in 2027, it will be a new pitch.”
The MLB program also has a ball of curved, but did not add it in the low season.
Kelly now launches five throws: a fast four seam ball, two sewing balls, sweeping, cutter and change.
“I think both sides will be useful for stealing strikes,” Kelly said. “And I also think part of what I noticed after reviewing last year is with the corrections of the routes that I really did not go much. My cutter is far away and my sweeping is and my fast ball is. I felt like it was almost half of the plate.
“So I heard that they did not have to respect the inside of the dish,” he added. “So I think we can use these two bodies and do it almost to open the other launches that are better, I think it will be useful.”
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