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Antoine Kelly, P
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Kelly had surgery to correct thoracic outlet syndrome in November 2020 and threw live BP at the Brewers' Phoenix complex shortly before publication. Healthy, pre-surgery Kelly would bump 98 and had a big, athletic frame and fluid delivery, but Milwaukee drafted him knowing the rest had to be developed. Fastball location seemed to be the developmental focus for Kelly in his first pro summer. In both my look and those of several scouts, he featured something like 80% fastballs that year. The org thought they had made real progress with his slider before Kelly was shut down. There was a pretty big gap between where Kelly was developmentally and the components he'd need to develop to be a starter. He's now lost chunks of two seasons to a pandemic and TOS recovery, pushing him deeper into the relief bucket. But Kelly's arm strength and his fastball's angle give him a shot to have an elite pitch if he returns to form, and if his slider is truly better, then he could work in leveraged relief eventually.