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Los Angeles Dodgers legend Clayton Kershaw announced in September that he will retire after this season.
Kershaw, 37, recorded a career 2.53 ERA over 18 seasons, which is the lowest by any MLB pitcher in the live-ball era (since 1920) with at least 1,000 innings.
Tom "Flash" Gordon, a former MLB star, told Fox News Digital that Kershaw should be a first-ballot Hall of Famer.
"I’ll tell you this, if he's not a first ballot Hall of Famer, then you know, I didn't play 21 years in the league, and me and you are not talking today. And I know that's what we're doing right now," Gordon told Fox News Digital in a recent interview.
Gordon watched a lot of Kershaw because his son, Dee Strange-Gordon, played with the Dodgers for