The Los Angeles Dodgers will bid farewell to Clayton Kershaw , who announced Thursday that he will retire at the end of the 2025 season , concluding an 18-year career spent entirely with the franchise. Selected seventh overall in the 2006 MLB Draft, Kershaw made his major league debut on May 25, 2008, and has never worn another uniform. He becomes one of the rare modern players to spend his entire career with a single franchise.

Kershaw’s career is synonymous with relentless preeminence . He is an 11-time All-Star, three-time Cy Young Award winner, 2014 National League MVP, and two-time World Series champion (2020 and 2024). He holds a career 2.54 ERA, the lowest of any pitcher in the live-ball era since 1920, with 222 wins, 96 losses, 15 shutouts, and 3,039 strikeouts. His 78.7 WAR

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