Franchise icon Clayton Kershaw is back with the Los Angeles Dodgers for the 2025 season, which will be the decorated left-hander’s 18th in the majors. He’ll earn $7.5 million, with incentives for starts and days on the active roster.

Kershaw, who turns 37 in March, comes off an injury-plagued 2024 season with a 4.50 ERA in 30 innings across seven starts. When healthy, he has been effective, boasting a 160 ERA+ and a 3.34 FIP over the last three seasons. This three-time Cy Young winner will enter 2025 with 212 wins and a WAR of 76.5, a mark that cements him as a first-ballot Hall of Famer.

Returning to the reigning-champion Dodgers, Kershaw will join a packed rotation featuring Blake Snell, Tyler Glasnow, Yoshinobu Yamamoto, Roki Sasaki, Tony Gonsolin, and Dustin May. Additionally, reigning NL MVP Shohei Ohtani may return by May after a Tommy John procedure. Despite injury concerns, Kershaw enters a season with a chance to win his third World Series title.