Clayton Kershaw will cross his first official step towards membership of Los Angeles Dodgers next week, although there will always be a long wait before it can adapt to the MLB team.
The Dodgers Manager Dave Roberts Friday to journalists That Kershaw will start a rehabilitation assignment next Wednesday, more than a month before the team is authorized to activate it on its active list on May 17.
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Kershaw Re-signed with dodgers on a $ 7.5 million contract over one year Last-Season And was placed on the 60 -day injured list during training in the spring, as planned. The triple winner of the CY Young Prize has undergone surgeries on his left foot and his knee after the 2024 seasonLeaving his calendar back in 2025 misty.
The rehabilitation assignments of minor leagues are only allowed to spend 30 days with launchers before the teams are forced to add them to the list of 26 men or to remove them. If Kershaw's rehabilitation mission begins on April 16, it would align well with him just returning around his date of eligibility.
Kershaw only made two departures last season due to the rehabilitation of shoulder surgery and knee and toe injuries that required surgery, but he was still able to Celebrate a World Series title with his teammates. He joined the Dodgers this season as luxury, because the team already had one of the most stacked rotations, even with a considerable amount of players who always go to the injury.
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Tony Gonsolin, returning from Tommy John surgery, will start rehabilitation one day before Kershaw on Tuesday and the beginnings of Shohei Ohtani as a launcher are still looming, With an even more dynamic schedule than Kershaw. Dodgers are also Now without another Cy Young winner on the left in Blake SnellHaving them raised Landon Knack to the rotation of the big leagues.
For the moment, the rotation of the dodgers is Yoshinobu Yamamoto, Tyler Glasnow, Roki Sasaki, Dustin May and Knack. Gonsolin would theoretically drop the heel upon his return, although you can really never be sure of how things will work with this team.
