Clayton Kershaw doesn’t need to think about himself carrying one other staff’s uniform.
When the left-hander appeared on the FOX pregame present earlier than Sport 2 on Monday in Los Angeles, he didn’t assume he needed to make clear the place he can be enjoying when he introduced his intentions to return to the mound in 2025.
“I simply thought everybody sort of assumed and knew I used to be coming again. I didn’t actually give it some thought,” he stated this week.
Kershaw made it clear that he doesn’t need to play wherever else.
“I’m going to be a Dodger,” he insisted.
Subsequent season may play out in one in every of two methods. He may both train his participant possibility, or he may decline it, develop into a free agent, and signal a brand new cope with the Dodgers.
“I feel I’ll simply sort of discuss to Andrew (Friedman), attempt to determine all that stuff out,” Kershaw stated. “Not precisely certain.”
Whereas Kershaw is hopeful that the Dodgers need him again, he probably received’t have the ability to begin the season on time if he has surgical procedure on the bone spurs in his toe.
“I feel in all probability greater than something simply having surgical procedure final 12 months, it doesn’t make a variety of sense to get the surgical procedure after which solely have seven begins,” Kershaw stated Tuesday. “It simply sort of seems like a waste. Would possibly as properly make use of the brand new shoulder and see the way it goes.
“I simply need to hold enjoying.”
A choice hasn’t formally been made concerning his toe. The three-time Cy Younger winner stated he and the staff’s medical employees are “nonetheless deciding what to do.”
“It’s not, like, tremendous clear-cut,” he stated. “However I feel we’re getting a reasonably first rate plan collectively in place. No matter occurs, it could possibly wait till after this run right here.”
“I don’t know if a full season is within the playing cards essentially, but it surely is perhaps,” he added. “I simply, I don’t know but. Bought to determine it out.”
The remainder is as much as Friedman to determine however Kershaw says not less than yet another 12 months is value it.
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