LOS ANGELES — Andrew Friedman has said his goal is to make this the “Golden Era of Dodger baseball.”

It already might be – and Clayton Kershaw is the face of that era.

“I mean, he’s part of the greatest, almost the greatest, run of Dodger history. You’ve got to go back to the ’50s, the ’60s,” first baseman Freddie Freeman said. “The run of success the Dodgers have had since 2012, when it started to really, really get going around here, he’s been a part of every single thing.

“Eighteen years is a lot. A lot of bullets he’s thrown in that left arm. He’s gone through everything. He’s come back from everything. It seems like every other year the last five years – he’s had either the elbow after ’21 was a little barking, his shoulder, or then it’s his toe and his knees. And he just keeps com

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