Throughout our respective lives, there are things/events that happen that cause us to say “Where has the time gone” – things like our childhood and growth, our graduation from junior and senior high school and college, our marriage(s), the birth, childhood, and growth of our kids, their graduation from junior and senior high school and college, their marriage(s), the birth, childhood, and growth of their kids, and so on.

And then there’s Major League Baseball, for which, of course, you wouldn’t even be reading this if you were not a member of our beloved MLB fraternity and brother/sisterhood.

Thanks to a late-night Twitter post by longtime (2005-2014) former Dodgers General Manager Ned Colletti on Thursday night, one of those “Where has the time gone” moments came to light for avid Dodgers – and MLB – fans about 35-year-old future Hall of Fame left-hander Clayton Kershaw.

Colletti tweeted:

As Colletti’s tweet notes, it was 15 years ago to the day – May 25, 2008 – that Kershaw, who Colletti drafted in the first round of the 2006 MLB draft (seventh overall pick) out of Highland Park High School in Dallas, TX as a then 18-year-old, made his Major League debut with the Dodgers, the only MLB team he has ever pitched for.

As Colletti’s tweet also points out, since that historic day, Kershaw has earned three National League Cy Young Awards, one NL MVP Award, is a World Series Champion, a nine-time All-Star, a five-time NL ERA title winner, a Gold Glove Award winner, a pitching Triple Crown winner, and collected his 200th career win on April 18, 2023. He also moved into 22nd place on MLB’s all-time strikeout leaderboard.

“Two hundred wins is so many wins. It’s a special, special accomplishment,” said Dodgers catcher and Kershaw’s close friend Austin Barnes after that historic win. “He’s a special pitcher. He’s not even really that old, but he’s been doing it for a long time.”

Two hundred wins.

Where has the time gone?

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