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Dodgers' Joe Kelly doesn't want your sympathy. He just wants to get you out.

Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Joe Kelly works in the sixth inning against the Cincinnati Reds at Dodger Stadium on July 29, 2023, in Los Angeles.

LOS ANGELES — Joe Kelly is many things: thrower of 99-mph sinkers and knee-buckling sliders, wearer of mariachi jackets to the White House, unabashed producer of pouty faces, like the one he gave former Houston shortstop Carlos Correa after a fiery exchange, author of a baseball memoir titled "A Damn Near Perfect Game."

One thing the new/old and often outspoken Dodgers reliever is not: a sentimentalist.

While being discarded in a losing team's liquidation sale might ruffle the feathers of some big league veterans, Kelly wasn't the least bit offended by the Chicago White Sox's decision to trade him last week, when the team sent him and starter Lance Lynn

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