{"id":551815,"date":"2026-03-21T19:54:51","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T19:54:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/551815\/"},"modified":"2026-03-21T19:54:51","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T19:54:51","slug":"merrill-kelly-to-begin-season-on-diamondbacks-15-day-il","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/551815\/","title":{"rendered":"Merrill Kelly To Begin Season On Diamondbacks&#8217; 15-Day IL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back problems have limited <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/k\/kellyme01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-03-21_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Merrill Kelly<\/a> to just two Spring Training outings, and thus it isn\u2019t any surprise that Diamondbacks manager Torey Lovullo announced today that Kelly would start the season on the 15-day injured list.\u00a0 Lovullo told reporters (including <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/alexjweiner\/status\/2035433876970156382\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Alex Weiner of Arizona Sports<\/a>) that the club\u2019s starting five will consist of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/g\/galleza01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-03-21_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Zac Gallen<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/n\/nelsory01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-03-21_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Ryne Nelson<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/r\/rodried05.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-03-21_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Eduardo Rodriguez<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/s\/sorokmi01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-03-21_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Michael Soroka<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/p\/pfaadbr01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-03-21_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Brandon Pfaadt<\/a> while Kelly recovers.<\/p>\n<p>Kelly\u2019s injury issues surfaced about a month ago, and it was enough to immediately scuttle plans for Kelly to get the Opening Day start.\u00a0 The right-hander <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlbtraderumors.com\/2026\/03\/latest-on-merrill-kelly-corbin-carroll.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">received some injections<\/a> that helped ease the discomfort enough that there was hope that the IL could be avoided altogether, though Kelly didn\u2019t get into any game action until March 13.\u00a0 Over two Cactus League starts, Kelly has been rocked for an 8.31 ERA in 4 1\/3 innings, so it\u2019s clear he isn\u2019t quite ready for prime time.<\/p>\n<p>More to come\u2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Back problems have limited Merrill Kelly to just two Spring Training outings, and thus it isn\u2019t any surprise&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":551816,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,10621,462,82],"class_list":["post-551815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-merrill-kelly","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=551815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551815\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/551816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=551815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=551815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=551815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}