{"id":95439,"date":"2025-02-11T16:31:03","date_gmt":"2025-02-11T21:31:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/?p=95439"},"modified":"2025-02-19T18:23:41","modified_gmt":"2025-02-19T23:23:41","slug":"cy-young-award-winner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2025\/02\/11\/cy-young-award-winner\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Clayton Kershaw Returns to Dodgers on One-Year Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Los Angeles Dodgers have reportedly signed Clayton Kershaw to a one-year deal, pending a physical, according to Fabian Ardaya of The Athletic. It is unclear when the 18-year veteran will pitch in a regular season game this year. The three-time Cy Young Award winner is still recovering from <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/11\/01\/dodgers-kershaw-have-surgeries\/\" target=\"_self\">multiple off-season surgeries<\/a> to fix his knee and big toe. As a result, Kershaw will begin the year on the 60-day Injured List.<\/p>\n<h2>Report: Clayton Kershaw Returns to Dodgers on One-Year Deal<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Clayton Kershaw is here. His signing isn\u2019t official, per source, as he still has to complete a physical. But it should come as no surprise.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Fabian Ardaya (@FabianArdaya) <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FabianArdaya\/status\/1889394989580624166?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">February 11, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4>A Plethora of Pitching Options<\/h4>\n<p>At first glance, it would seem that the Dodgers have an over-abundance of choices for the starting rotation. They have <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2025\/01\/17\/roki-sasaki-signs-dodgers\/\" target=\"_self\">signed free agents<\/a> Roki Sasaki and Blake Snell. In addition, Tyler Glasnow and Dustin May will be returning from injury as well. It remains to be seen where Kershaw will fit. However, Los Angeles would much prefer having too many choices than too few considering what happened last season when <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/11\/18\/dodgers-mark-prior-discusses-pitching-injuries\/\" target=\"_self\">every member<\/a> of the rotation ended on the I.L.<\/p>\n<h4>Milestone Maker<\/h4>\n<p>No one would fault Kershaw if he chose to retire. \u00a0After all, the multiple Cy Young Award Winner and Most Valuable Player has two World Series rings, as well as the lowest Earned Run Average among active starting pitchers \u00a0at 2.50. \u00a0It is also a career in which the left-hander posted a span of 193 starts that he was able to throw at least seven innings and compile an ERA of 1.99.<\/p>\n<h4>The Big Question<\/h4>\n<p>Those seven-inning starts may be in the past, but there are still things he wishes to accomplish. For example, if \u00a0Kershaw is able to see any time on the diamond this year, he will most likely accumulate 3000 strikeouts, a mark that he is just 32 shy of at the moment. He only needs to stay healthy. The fact that Kershaw could be a part of another World Series run would be the icing on the cake of a stellar career.<\/p>\n<p>As of now, regardless of what happens this season, Kershaw is one of the greatest<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/12\/21\/greatets-dodger-pitchers-history\/\" target=\"_self\"> left-handers of all-time<\/a>. There is no question about that.<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo Credits: Kirby Lee-Imagn Images<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Los Angeles Dodgers have reportedly signed Clayton Kershaw to a one-year deal, pending a physical, according to Fabian Ardaya of The Athletic. It is unclear when the 18-year veteran will pitch in a regular season game this year. The three-time Cy Young Award winner is still recovering from multiple off-season surgeries to fix his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5226,"featured_media":95455,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[1122,97,28707,1245],"class_list":["post-95439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dodgers","tag-blake-snell","tag-clayton-kershaw","tag-roki-sasaki","tag-tyler-glasnow"],"modified_by":"Lewis Masella, Site Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5226"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95439"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95997,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95439\/revisions\/95997"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}