Excessive-spending Dodgers aren’t the crew to be villainized
Clayton Kershaw is famend for a way he pushes his physique to arrange, and but between that and being a workhorse, he by some means had by no means wanted surgical procedure in his first 15 main league seasons.
Now, he has had procedures 3 times prior to now two seasons — shoulder, knee and toe. He gained’t solely let you know the toe was probably the most diabolical. He’ll present you, opening a video of the post-operative foot stitched, discolored, engorged and so usually grotesque it seems to be extra like a slasher movie prop than a part of the most effective pitchers ever.
Kershaw turned 37 in March. He has not one however two of these World Sequence rings that he put himself via a bodily and psychological odyssey to land. He’s a Corridor of Fame cinch. In different phrases, why is he again pushing his physique anew to attempt to get again on the mound but once more?
He mentions his household is sweet with it. That being two years faraway from the shoulder surgical procedure, his arm feels so a lot better and “I actually didn’t have the sensation like I needed to cease.” Then Kershaw stared via the breadth of the star-laden Dodgers spring coaching clubhouse in Glendale, Ariz., to the locker areas of Shohei Ohtani, Mookie Betts and Freddie Freeman, however he used that invaluable left hand to comb the room; each finger seemingly touching a star within the galaxy that varieties a report $400 million-ish payroll:
