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IP	ERA	WHIP	SO	W	L	SV	WARP
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Birth Date	10-14-1988
Height	6' 2"
Weight	202 lbs

Age	35 years, 6 months, 3 days
Bats	R
Throws	R

: 2015
: 2016
: 2017
: 2018
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MLB Statistics

Historical (past-seasons) WARP is now based on DRA..
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YEAR	Team	Lg	G	GS	IP	W	L	SV	H	BB	SO	HR	PPF	H/9	BB/9	HR/9	K/9	GB%	BABIP	WHIP	FIP	ERA	cFIP	DRA	DRA-	WARP
2019	ARI	MLB	32	32	183.3	13	14	0	184	57	158	29	100	9.0	2.8	1.4	7.8	43%	.293	1.31	4.46	4.42	103	4.97	101.9	1.6
Career		MLB	32	32	183.3	13	14	0	184	57	158	29	100	9.0	2.8	1.4	7.8	43%	.293	1.31	4.46	4.42	103	4.97	101.9	1.6

Statistics for All Levels

'opp' stats - Quality of opponents faced - have been moved and are available only as OPP_QUAL in the Statistics reports now.
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YEAR	Team	Lg	LG	G	GS	IP	W	L	H	BB	SO	HR	PPF	H/9	BB/9	HR/9	K/9	GB%	BABIP	WHIP	FIP	ERA	cFIP	DRA	DRA-
2010	BGR	A	MDW	5	2	16.3	0	1	15	8	10	1	97	8.3	4.4	0.6	5.5	0%	.275	1.41	5.01	7.18	0	0.00	0.0
2010	HUD	A-	NYP	7	1	21.3	1	1	16	5	19	0	81	6.8	2.1	0.0	8.0	0%	.262	0.99	2.52	2.11	0	0.00	0.0
2011	PCH	A+	FSL	25	23	129.0	8	7	117	51	70	6	99	8.2	3.6	0.4	4.9	0%	.271	1.30	4.24	3.28	112	4.55	92.8
2012	MNT	AA	SOU	32	9	88.3	8	3	84	28	61	4	103	8.6	2.9	0.4	6.2	0%	.294	1.27	3.43	3.57	94	4.06	84.6
2013	MNT	AA	SOU	13	12	73.7	5	6	54	31	41	3	102	6.6	3.8	0.4	5.0	0%	.231	1.15	3.70	4.15	106	4.06	88.2
2013	DUR	AAA	INT	15	14	84.7	8	4	74	34	70	4	112	7.9	3.6	0.4	7.4	0%	.281	1.28	3.47	3.19	100	3.94	85.7
2014	DUR	AAA	INT	28	15	114.0	9	4	107	37	108	10	107	8.4	2.9	0.8	8.5	0%	.298	1.26	3.72	2.76	95	3.65	77.3
2019	ARI	MLB	NL	32	32	183.3	13	14	184	57	158	29	100	9.0	2.8	1.4	7.8	43%	.293	1.31	4.46	4.42	103	4.97	101.9

Plate Discipline

YEAR	Pits	Zone%	Swing%	Contact%	Z-Swing%	O-Swing%	Z-Contact%	O-Contact%	SwStr%
2019	2960	0.4993	0.4672	0.7751	0.6529	0.2821	0.8342	0.6388	0.2249
Career	2960	0.4993	0.4672	0.7751	0.6529	0.2821	0.8342	0.6388	0.2249

Injury History — No longer being updated

Last Update: 12/31/2014 23:59 ET

Date On	Date Off	Transaction	Days	Games	Side	Body Part	Injury	Severity	Surgery Date	Reaggravation
2011-05-14	2011-05-23	Minors	9	0	-		Not Disclosed		-	-

Compensation

Year	Team	Salary
2025	ARI	$1,000,000
2024	ARI	$8,500,000
2023	ARI	$8,500,000
2022	ARI	$5,250,000
2021	ARI	$4,250,000
2020	ARI	$3,000,000
2019	ARI	$2,000,000

Years	Description	Salary
5 yr	Previous	$23,000,000
2019	Current	$8,500,000
6 yr	Pvs + Cur	$31,500,000
1 yr	Future	$1,000,000
7 yr	Total	$32,500,000

Service Time	Agent	Contract Status
4 y 0 d	Apex	2 years/$5.5M (2019-20), 2021-22 options

Details

2 years/$18M (2023-24), plus 2025 club option. Signed extension with Arizona 4/1/22. $1M signing bonus. 23:$8M, 24:$8M, 25:$7M club option ($1M buyout).
2 years/$5.5M (2019-20), plus 2021-22 options. Signed by Arizona as a free agent 12/4/18. 19:$2M, 20:$3M, 21:$4.25M club option ($500,000 buyout), 22: $5.25M club option (no buyout). May not be sent to minors without consent. Will become free agent at contract's end. Arizona exercised 2021 option 11/1/20. Arizona exercised 2022 option 11/4/21.
2015-18. SK Wyverns of Korea (signed 12/18/14).
Released by Tampa Bay 12/17/14.
Drafted by Tampa Bay 2010 (8-251). $125,000 signing bonus.

2019 Preseason Forecast

Last Update: 1/27/2017 12:35 ET

PCT	W	L	SV	G	GS	IP	H	BB	SO	HR	BABIP	WHIP	ERA	DRA	VORP	WARP
Weighted Mean	?	?	?	?	?	0.0	?	0	0	?	.000	0.00	0.00	?	0.0	0.0

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BP Chats

Date	Question	Answer
2020-01-24 13:00:00 (link to chat)	A lot of Zac Gallen buzz but will he even win a starting job to begin the season? Merrill Kelly finished last year very strong. Chance that Luke Weaver outperforms Gallen? (Craig from Chicago)	This is a fair point and something has to give. The rotation is full with Bumgarner, Ray, Leake, Gallen, Weaver, and Kelly. There have been rumors of a potential trade of Ray, and I would expect something to happen in the next month or so. If nothing happens, I have to imagine Gallen earns a spot in the rotation. I do think Weaver could outperform Gallen. Weaver has slightly better stuff and command than Gallen, but with the injury flag clouding his short-term future. (Jesse Roche)
2019-03-18 16:00:00 (link to chat)	Keeper league...who do you like between Merrill Kelly, Chase Anderson or Trevor Richards? (sportsguy21792 from Madison, WI)	Richards, and it's not particularly close. He'll be a liability in wins, but he think he'll out-K the other two by a country mile. (Jon Hegglund)
2019-03-11 16:00:00 (link to chat)	Looking for the next Miles Mikolas...is Merrill Kelly my guy? (sportsguy21792 from Cube by the window)	The cost is basically nothing right now so I don't mind the shot in case he turns into something, but I don't think the command is close. (Darius Austin)

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PITCHf/x Pitcher Profile

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Merrill Kelly has thrown 13,235 pitches that have been tracked by the PITCHf/x system between 2019 and 2024, all of them occuring in Spring Training. In 2024, he has relied primarily on his Fourseam Fastball (92mph) and Cutter (91mph), also mixing in a Change (89mph), Slider (86mph), Sinker (93mph) and Curve (82mph).