Clayton Kershaw Stays a Dodger

Spring training starts today. We made it!

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Hi friends-

A big thanks to everyone who came to our book club Zoom with Joe Posnanski on Monday night. If you missed it and you want to watch the replay, you can go here.

As a reminder, our February book is “K: A History of Baseball in Ten Pitches” by Tyler Kepner. Tyler will join paid Long Game subscribers for a Zoom conversation about his book on Monday, March 4, from 5:30 PM PT to 6:30 PM PT. It’s a terrific book, and I hope you’ll read it whether or not you can join the Zoom.

Also, we have a Zoom for paid subscribers where we talk baseball every Saturday from 12 PM PT to 1 PM PT. Now that spring training is starting, I hope you’ll join us!

I woke up an hour ago to an email from the Dodgers about clubhouse availability today, and it hit me: We made it!!!!

From now until the final out of the World Series is recorded in nine months, we will have actual baseball news every day to chew on. Something will happen. We are no longer waiting on Scott Boras to blink to have an agenda to discuss. Hallelujah! We did it.

The biggest news of the week (so far) is that after months of speculation regarding whether Clayton Kershaw would re-sign with the Dodgers or jump to his hometown Rangers, he agreed to a deal to stay in L.A. in 2024. He’s due to take a physical today, which also happens to be the first day that the Dodgers can place players on the 60-day injured list. This is significant because the Dodgers won’t have to cut anyone from their 40-man roster to add Kershaw to the team.