Joe Kelly Candidate For Red Sox Closer Job

Joe Kelly, RHP, Red Sox — If you look at how the Sox pitching staff is constructed, there’s no room for him in the rotation. Dave Dombrowski will likely seek an ace. So if you have the ace, plus Clay Buchholz ($13 million option), Rick Porcello, Wade Miley, and EduardoRodriguez, that leaves Kelly, Steven Wright, and Henry Owens out of the picture. Even with Kelly’s recent success, it makes sense to make him closer as Koji Uehara’s broken right wrist could be tough to come back from. According to one AL GM, Buchholz and Miley would have value.

Boston Globe