(CNN) — One of baseball ’s very best is set to hang up his cleats.

Clayton Kershaw, the three-time National League Cy Young Award winner for the Los Angeles Dodgers , will retire as a player at the conclusion of the 2025 season, according to the team.

The 18-year pro won two World Series rings with the club that drafted him seventh overall in the 2006 player draft. The Texan has spent his entire career with the Dodgers.

Despite being emotional, Kershaw told reporters Thursday evening that he “really wasn’t sad” about the decision.

“I’m really not. I’m really at peace with this. It’s just emotional, and I’ve tried to hold it together. I told our guys to not make it weird today. Cause I was going to get weird if you made it weird. Here I am, making it weird,” Kershaw said with his t

See Full Page