What’s up with Kela?

JollyRoger · Post by **JollyRoger** » Sat Mar 09, 2019 7:56 pm

Besides getting hammered for 3 HR’s in 1 inning, I read somewhere that he would be declining interviews from the media.

Wonder what is going on?

JollyRoger · Post by **JollyRoger** » Sat Mar 09, 2019 8:07 pm

5D787B7B6E4578707265170 wrote: Besides getting hammered for 3 HR’s in 1 inning, I read somewhere that he would be declining interviews from the media.

Wonder what is going on?
Never mind. He gave an interview today. Must have been false information

maher.timothy20@gm · Post by **maher.timothy20@gm** » Sat Mar 09, 2019 10:01 pm

It's not false. He announced last week that he wouldn't be speaking to the media this year, which I guess is a thing players can do. Not sure why he gave an interview now. Maybe he's making an exception for spring training.

maher.timothy20@gm · Post by **maher.timothy20@gm** » Sat Mar 09, 2019 10:03 pm

But yes, he got smacked around good today. Three home runs, and they would have been upper deck shots if they had upper decks in spring training.

fjk090852-7 · Post by **fjk090852-7** » Wed Apr 17, 2019 11:36 am

Kela had a tough spring training, and he continues to struggle early this season. I hope he is not hurt, but right now whenever he comes into pitch a lead is not safe.

PMike · Post by **PMike** » Wed Apr 17, 2019 12:30 pm

5F5352090009010C0B140E390 wrote: Kela had a tough spring training, and he continues to struggle early this season. I hope he is not hurt, but right now whenever he comes into pitch a lead is not safe.

Kela is throwing a lot of great pitches and a few absolutely terrible pitches. His terrible pitches are coming when he is ahead in the count and they are getting crushed. The 0-2 double he gave up last night was abysmal. Two great pitches, then a curveball up in the zone while Cervelli was calling for it in the dirt. He missed location by 4 feet!

OrlandoMerced · Post by **OrlandoMerced** » Wed Apr 17, 2019 1:21 pm

He stinks right now. RP performance is extremely volatile year to year, the team has to be ready to move him out of a leverage role and make him earn back a late inning role in the bullpen. Luckily they do still have Crick, and Rodriguez has had some clean outings. More importantly, Burdi has looked like a late inning guy this year. Pulling a back end BP piece out your ass every year is the NH special

Bobster21 · Post by **Bobster21** » Wed Apr 17, 2019 2:01 pm

18253B363933381A3225343233570 wrote: He stinks right now. RP performance is extremely volatile year to year, the team has to be ready to move him out of a leverage role and make him earn back a late inning role in the bullpen. Luckily they do still have Crick, and Rodriguez has had some clean outings. More importantly, Burdi has looked like a late inning guy this year. Pulling a back end BP piece out your ass every year is the NH special
Yes, Kela had an outstanding rookie year in 2015 which he followed up with a very bad 2016 (6.09 ERA). Then he had a very good 2017 but only so-so (3.44 ERA) with the Rangers last year when the Bucs acquired him on 7/31. He pitched well for the Pirates the 2 months they had him (Aug, Sept) but now looks bad again. I think, as Orlando Merced said, we have to recognize the inconsistency of many relievers. Kela has flip-flopped from good to bad to mediocre to good to bad now so it's quite possible he's not a top reliever just having a few bad games. I think we should just be happy whenever he has a good outing and not count on him to lock down the 8th inning on a regular basis. I hope Hurdle addresses the situation but he seems to prefer to plug names into a formula and call it a day.

SammyKhalifa · Post by **SammyKhalifa** » Wed Apr 17, 2019 5:18 pm

He's also very much not a March/April (or September) pitcher:

https://www.baseball-reference.com/play ... onth::none

steve49 · Post by **steve49** » Wed Apr 17, 2019 7:13 pm

524F6B6967020 wrote: Kela had a tough spring training, and he continues to struggle early this season. I hope he is not hurt, but right now whenever he comes into pitch a lead is not safe.

Kela is throwing a lot of great pitches and a few absolutely terrible pitches. His terrible pitches are coming when he is ahead in the count and they are getting crushed. The 0-2 double he gave up last night was abysmal. Two great pitches, then a curveball up in the zone while Cervelli was calling for it in the dirt. He missed location by 4 feet!

I was going to post similar. He has plenty of velocity and movement , just here and there making some horrible pitches.