With White Sox bullpen, it’s hard to get what they paid for

It’s always ill-advised to judge a player off two games, but sometimes it’s fun for noting purposes. After his disastrous eighth inning on Thursday in which he retired the first two batters before failing to retire his last five, Joe Kelly is already -0.5 WAR in the hole according to Baseball-Reference.com’s calculations. FanGraphs is kinder and probably more faithful to the concept of WAR at -0.1, but since Kelly has taken the loss in one of his two games, -0.5 WAR has a logical consistency underneath the visceral, RealFeel nature of his face-plant out of the gate. Kelly’s track record…

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