Clayton Kershaw Healthy Entering 2020 Season
5 years agoLos Angeles Dodgers starting pitcher Clayton Kershaw (shoulder), who didn't pitch in a single spring training game last year and who missed the first three weeks of the regular season due to a left shoulder injury, said he feels "a lot better" after a healthy offseason. The left-hander also said he "never really did stop throwing" in the offseason for the first time in his career. The soon-to-be 32-year-old said it was his first healthy offseason in years. Kershaw was an All-Star in 2019 and went 16-5 with a 3.03 ERA and 1.04 WHIP. He was in the top 10 for ERA, wins, winning percentage, quality starts, opponent batting average, opponent's on-base percentage, WHIP walks per nine innings and strikeout-to-walk ratio. Injury concerns mean that Kershaw is no longer a high-end fantasy ace worth taking in the first round, but he's at least a low-end ace worth taking in the early rounds.
Source: MLB.com - Ken Gurnick
Source: MLB.com - Ken Gurnick