Supply — Clayton Kershaw staying with Dodgers on 1-year deal

The Dodgers and Clayton Kershaw reached settlement on a one-year deal Thursday, bringing the long run Corridor of Fame left-hander again to Los Angeles for a sixteenth season, a supply confirmed to ESPN. The Athletic first reported the settlement.

Kershaw’s deal is anticipated to be of comparable worth to the one-year, $17 million deal he signed shortly after the house owners’ lockout concluded in March. The Dodgers declined to increase Kershaw the $19.65 million qualifying provide earlier on Thursday, similar to they did early final offseason, largely as a result of they did not need to strain him into making a call sooner than he may need wished.

Kershaw, 34, continued to carry out like one of many sport’s finest pitchers when wholesome final season, going 12-3 with a 2.28 ERA in 126 1/3 innings, hanging out 137 batters and issuing solely 23 walks whereas beginning the All-Star Sport from Dodger Stadium. However Kershaw additionally continued to battle well being points, serving two separate stints on the injured record with discomfort in his decrease again.

A 3-time Cy Younger Award winner, Kershaw is broadly anticipated to go year-to-year at this level in his profession, however he had principally selected returning for the 2023 season down the stretch. The Texas Rangers, the crew he grew up rooting for, which resides close to his offseason residence and are actually run by his buddy, pitcher-turned-executive Chris Younger, had been seen as a possible risk.

However Kershaw, who deeply values the chance to compete for championships on a yearly foundation, as soon as once more selected to return to the one main league crew he has ever pitched for.

The Dodgers started the offseason seeking to replenish their rotation however now have 4 beginning pitchers locked in for subsequent 12 months, with Kershaw becoming a member of Julio Urias, Dustin Might and Tony Gonsolin. Tyler Anderson, who broke out as an All-Star final season, was prolonged the qualifying provide and has till Nov. 20 to simply accept or reject it.

The Dodgers declined their $16 million possibility on Justin Turner’s contract on Thursday however are hopeful that he – like Kershaw – will return in 2023.