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The Los Angeles Dodgers and Clayton Kershaw will be together for their 17th season in 2024.
According to Joel Sherman of the New York Post, Kershaw and the Dodgers are in agreement on a 1-year contract with a player option for 2025. Additional details and the value of the contract have not yet been announced.
Kershaw was ranked No. 14 on Yahoo Sports' list of this winter's top free agents.
This signing has been a long time coming. Kershaw, 35, is approaching the end of his career, and the Dodgers are the only team he has ever played for.
Kershaw had a great 2023, ending the regular season with a 2.46 ERA over 24 starts and 131 2/3 innings. But his only postseason start last season was an unqualified disaster. In Game 1 of the NLDS against the Arizona Diamondbacks, Kershaw gave up six runs and recorded a single out. In that one start, his ERA was 162.00. The Dodgers lost and were quickly eliminated from the playoffs.
Clayton Kershaw is still rehabbing, but the Dodgers don't need him (for now)
Kershaw underwent left shoulder surgery in November, and it remains unclear when he will return to the Dodgers' rotation. Per MLB.com's Juan Toribio, he won't be ready until at least late July, while The Athletic reports that he started his throwing program last week.
Fortunately for the Dodgers, they are currently equipped to not need Kershaw anytime soon. After watching last year's rotation fall apart due to injuries, the Dodgers went out and spent big to sign Yoshinobu Yamamoto (12 years, $325 million) and James Paxton (one year, $7 million) and trade for Tyler Glasnow, who then signed a five-year, $135 million extension.
With young pitchers Bobby Miller and Emmet Sheehan returning and Walker Buehler waiting in the wings, the Dodgers have a potential six-man rotation set up for 2024. Of course, injuries are inevitable, which is why Kershaw agreed to such a deal and why the Dodgers will likely want him toward the end of the season.
It will be a limited season for Kershaw, but as the left-hander enters the twilight of his career, it seems he and the only franchise he has played for are on the same page as his legendary career winds down.
Daniel Weinman was crowned winner of the 2023 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event on Monday, taking home a record breaking $12.1 million in winnings. Weinman had to outlast the other 10,043 entrants to take home the prize and get his hands on his share of live poker’s largest ever prize pool – a staggering $93,399,900. As well as taking home the prize money, 35-year-old Weinman also got his hands on the WSOP Main Event bracelet. The huge bracelet contains 500 grams of 10-karat yellow gold, as well as 2,352 various precious gemstones.
Daniel Weinman won the World Series of Poker's main event world championship on Monday in Las Vegas, earning $12.1 million along the way. Playing in the tournament for a 16th year, Weinman was tops in a deep pool of 10,043 players vying for $93.39 million. His victory came after just 164 hands at the final table. "I was honestly on the fence about even coming back and playing this tournament," the 35-year-old Atlanta native told reporters afterward. Weinman's final table featured Jan-Peter Jachtmann, who landed in fourth place and took home $3 million, as well as Toby Lewis, who finished seventh and secured $1.42 million. According to the Las Vegas Review-Journal, the main event's entry pool far outpaced the previous record of 8,773 set in 2006. "I've always kind of felt that poker was kind of going in a dying direction, but to see the numbers at the World Series this year has been incredible," Weinman said. "And to win this main event, it doesn't feel real. I mean, [there's] so much luck in a poker tournament. I thought I played very well." Steven Jones finished second, securing $6.5 million. And Adam Walton settled for third and a $4 million prize.
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