Dodgers reliever Joe Kelly calls Astros ‘snitches’ and ‘rats’ in podcast

Joe Kelly isn’t one to mince his words.

Nor is he one to back down on the mound.

And even after he was suspended by Major League Baseball for eight games — later reduced to five after an appeal — for throwing pitches near the heads of Houston Astros’ Alex Bregman and Carlos Correa last month, the Los Angeles Dodgers reliever tossed another heater at the Astros’ players on how they were offered immunity from discipline in return for cooperating with MLB during the sign-stealing investigation.

“The people who took the fall for what happened is nonsense,” he said during an appearance on The Big Swing podcast with teammate Ross Stripling. “Yes, everyone is involved. But the way that (sign-stealing system) was run over there was not from coaching staff. … They’re not the head boss in charge of that thing. It’s the players. So now the players get the immunity, and all they do is go snitch like a little (expletive), and they don’t have to get fined, they don’t have to lose games.”

In Kelly’s eyes, those who took the fall didn’t sit well with him.

Astros GM Jeff Luhnow and manager A.J. Hinch were suspended by MLB and fired by Houston owner Jim Crane in January after MLB’s investigation. Former player Carlos Beltran, who had been hired to manage the New York Mets in 2020, lost his job. And Alex Cora, former Astros bench coach who led the 2018 Boston Red Sox to a World Series title — in which Kelly was a member of  — was suspended for the 2020 season and let go by the Red Sox. 

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