Fact: Exactly five years after 10-time All-Star, five-time ERA title holder, three-time Cy Young Award winner, former MLB MVP and Triple-Crown winner Dodgers left-hander Clayton Kershaw decides to retire from Major League Baseball, he will be enshrined in the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York. Of that you can be sure.
The question, of course, is when will the extremely popular 35-year-old Dallas, TX native and Dodgers first round draft pick in 2006 out of Highland Park High School in Dallas retire?
Judging by what Kershaw posted on Instagram early Friday morning, it may not happen anytime soon.
Or will it?
Although “Hope Spring Eternal” and all that, there is no record (at least that I am aware of) of anyone returning to the game in seven(-ish) months after such a procedure(s), and most certainly not a (then-will-be) 36-year-old.
Then again, it is Clayton Kershaw we’re talking about here – the man with the other ‘Left arm of God.’
You are indeed in our prayers, Clayton.
Play Ball!
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I plan on attending CKs enshrinement, in Cooperstown. Really wanted him to get 1 more ring. Love the person he is.
Kersh has to pitch again if only because that last game can’t be his last game.
I hope Kershaw can return to pitch in the second half of the 2024 season – 9 to 10 month recovery/rehab period. But, will he return to the Dodgers or decide to pitch closer to his home in the Dallas Tx area? No controversial theme games at Texas Rangers home games may be appealing after the Dodgers so badly botched their community hero award to the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence.
Sisters of P makes it hard to be a Dodgers fan. Insulted a lot of people and why enter into Politics when we want baseball????