Even after 14 MLB seasons, three Cy Young Awards, an MVP and a once-elusive World Series title, Clayton Kershaw's primary motivation hasn’t changed. One of baseball’s ultimate competitors is still obsessed with winning.
Clayton Kershaw has re-signed with the Dodgers for one year, and everyone in the organization appears excited and relieved he returned to the fold.Kershaw fielded plenty of interest from other teams
“I knew going into the lockout that it was favorable for us,” said Friedman, who wasn’t allowed to have contact with Kershaw during an MLB work stoppage that lasted from the start of December to Thursday. “But I didn’t know over that period of time, and him having a baby, if things would change. I had no idea.”
After MLB’s new collective bargaining agreement was ratified on Thursday, ending the work stoppage after 99 days, Kershaw informed both Young and Friedman of his decision by the end of the night. Had they done so, Kershaw would have been forced into a quick decision — having 10 days to either accept the one-year offer of $18.4 million, or decline it and risk his value on the open market being diminished by the fact another team would have been forced to give the Dodgers a draft pick to sign him.
“I wasn’t going to retire,” Kershaw said. “I mean, unless my elbow was really bad. But if I was healthy, I was going to play.” Looking back, he realizes he tried to push himself too hard last season, when he missed more than three months from July to September with left elbow inflammation before rushing back and reaggravating the injury during the Dodgers’ final series of the regular season.
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