{"id":6836,"date":"2014-03-23T19:20:32","date_gmt":"2014-03-23T23:20:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=6836"},"modified":"2014-03-23T19:20:32","modified_gmt":"2014-03-23T23:20:32","slug":"cardinals-name-joe-kelly-as-fifth-starter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/03\/23\/cardinals-name-joe-kelly-as-fifth-starter\/","title":{"rendered":"Cardinals name Joe Kelly as fifth starter"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The St. Louis Cardinals will begin the 2014 season with Joe Kelly as their fifth starter.<\/p>\n

Kelly, 25, did not have the best of springs turning in a 6.28 ERA but he still managed to lock down the spot.<\/p>\n

Additionally the Cardinals have announced that his competition for the spot, Carlos Martinez, will begin the season as the Cardinals option for the eighth inning. It’s a curious decision given that Martinez out-pitched Kelly this spring.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt had zero to do with what Carlos Martinez did not do,\u201d Matheny insisted when speaking about the two pitchers, via KMOV<\/a>. \u201c(Martinez) threw the ball exceptionally well.\u00a0 We\u2019re just in a spot where we need to figure out what\u2019s best for our club and having him in the bullpen for now (is best).<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not saying that\u2019s where he\u2019ll always be. I think (Martinez) is eventually going to be a starter and a very good one.\u00a0 But right now we need him out of the bullpen,\u201d Matheny said.<\/p>\n

Last season Kelly made 37 appearances including 15 stars. He totaled a 2.69 ERA and a 1.35 WHIP across 124 innings of work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The St. Louis Cardinals will begin the 2014 season with Joe Kelly as their fifth starter. Kelly, 25, did not have the best of springs turning in a 6.28 ERA but he still managed to lock down the spot. Additionally the Cardinals have announced that his competition for the spot, Carlos Martinez, will begin the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6837,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[683,503,682,501,29],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":["post-6836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-carlos-martinez","tag-front","tag-joe-kelly","tag-mlb","tag-st-louis-cardinals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6836"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6838,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6836\/revisions\/6838"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6836"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=6836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}