Clayton Kershaw Contract With Dodgers Includes Player Option for 2025: Report
Clayton Kershaw could share a rotation with new Dodgers teammate Shohei Ohtani in 2025.
Kershaw, who’s set to officially re-sign with the Dodgers later this week, reportedly has a player option in his contract for the 2025 season, according to Andy McCullough of The Athletic.
Kershaw will be out for a majority of the 2024 season as he rehabs offseason shoulder surgery, and is targeting a late summer return. However, the 2024 season may not be the end for Kershaw in Major League Baseball.
Kershaw has the opportunity to return in 2025, and join a rotation that will feature Ohtani, Yoshinobu Yamamoto, Tyler Glasnow and Bobby Miller. That would have the opportunity to go down as the most loaded rotation in baseball history, especially if Yamamoto and Miller continue their ascension.
For now, though, Kershaw doesn’t need to worry about 2025. He just needs to focus on attacking his rehab, and returning to a loaded Dodgers team in 2024.
Related: What Does The Dodgers’ Rotation Look Like With Clayton Kershaw?
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Four former MVP winners. Four potential future Hall of Famers. When have we seen a team with that many superstar players? And other than Outman and Lux, the Dodgers have an All-Star at every position. And Outman and Lux could be well above-average players.
The PECOTA predictions for Dodgers runs scored (substantially fewer than last year) and wins (only 101) are irrationally low. Three of nine spots in the line-up are significantly improved: Lux hits better than Rojas, Teoscar hits better than Peralta, Ohtani hits better than 120 games of JD Martinez. That means more runs scored. Also, Heyward will in effect take a lot of the at-bats that Miguel Vargas had since Heyward will be in the line-up and Betts will be at 2d base, rather than Betts in RF and Vargas at 2d base. Heyward could take about 200 at-bats that went to Vargas in the 1st half of last year. Heyward’s OPS last year was above .800. Vargas was .670. That too means more runs scored. What is wrong with the folks working on the PECOTA projections? At least they project the Dodgers will give up fewer runs this year than last year. [The defense, however, will not be as good.] More runs scored. Fewer runs given up. Only 1 more win? They did not over-perform their Pythagorean Theorem projection last year, either. They were not lucky to win 100 games, they were right on target for their run differential.
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