{"id":561912,"date":"2026-03-24T21:15:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T21:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/561912\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T21:15:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T21:15:08","slug":"dodgers-news-chris-campos-antoine-kelly-impressed-in-spring-training","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/561912\/","title":{"rendered":"Dodgers news: Chris Campos, Antoine Kelly impressed in spring training"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kelly signed to a minor league deal by the Dodgers in November<\/a> after pitching six minor league seasons in the Milwaukee Brewers, Texas Rangers, and Colorado Rockies systems. The 26-year-old left-hander has yet to reach the majors, but it\u2019s not hard to see that changing some time this season after his impressive spring.<\/p>\n

Kelly led Dodgers pitchers in Arizona with nine appearances, with 11 strikeouts and a 34.4-percent strikeout rate in 8 2\/3 scoreless innings. He allowed three hits and walked four, and was consistently pitching in the high-90s along with an effective slider.<\/p>\n

\u201cBig fastball, easy velocity, slider. He\u2019s been filling up the strike zone. He\u2019s had a tremendous camp. And I think as far as some guys that weren\u2019t on our radar that are now, he\u2019s one of them,\u201d manager Dave Roberts said Monday. \u201cFor us, just getting him here on this trip was something that he earned, and we wanted him to kind of reward him with his spring. So yeah, he\u2019ll go down to OKC, and won\u2019t be surprised to see him at some point with us in a relief role.\u201d<\/p>\n

Campos grew up going to games at Dodger Stadium, born in Montebello and playing baseball at Damien High School in La Verne. He was a two-way player at St. Mary\u2019s College, the same school that produced Corbin Burnes and Tony Gonsolin, to name a few.<\/p>\n

Campos pitched almost exclusively as a starter or in bulk relief in his four professional seasons since getting drafted in the seventh round in 2022. This spring as a reliever, he allowed only a run on 11 hits in his 10 innings of work over seven appearances this spring. Campos didn\u2019t walk a batter until issuing two free passes Monday night in his Dodger Stadium debut, and struck out 12 of his 43 batters faced (27.9 percent).<\/p>\n

\u201cI like him. He\u2019s just very confident, and I wish everyone carried themselves the way he carries himself on the mound, with the confidence that he has,\u201d Roberts said of Campos. \u201cHe\u2019s not a high velocity guy, he\u2019s a command guy. Uses three, four different pitches, and so just probably lets his stuff play up in a relief role and see how he can, you know, bounce back\u201d<\/p>\n

They didn\u2019t make the opening day roster, but Kelly and Campos sure pitched themselves into consideration for a call-up at some point this season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kelly signed to a minor league deal by the Dodgers in November after pitching six minor league seasons…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":561913,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,179738,277033,591,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-561912","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-dodgers-news-notes","11":"tag-los-angeles-dodgers-roster","12":"tag-mlb","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=561912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561912\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/561913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=561912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=561912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=561912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}