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Merrill Kelly on Turning Down Padres: ‘They Take Too Much Money Out of My Pocket’

Kelly said San Diego offered a guaranteed three-year deal that “definitely… made the decision a lot harder” to return to Arizona. But family, kids’ school plans, and California taxes swung it: “Too much money out of my pocket.” Kelly called the Padres his “second choice” if he left the Diamondbacks, adding, “The desert is home… we’re more desert rats.”