{"id":582357,"date":"2026-02-20T05:54:34","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T05:54:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/582357\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T05:54:34","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T05:54:34","slug":"freddie-freeman-makes-clayton-kershaw-admission-amid-los-angeles-dodgers-legend-not-being-at-spring-training","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/582357\/","title":{"rendered":"Freddie Freeman makes Clayton Kershaw admission amid Los Angeles Dodgers legend not being at Spring Training"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/mlb\/los-angeles-dodgers\/news\/freddie-freeman-clayton-kershaw-admission-amid-dodgers\/334021e41e5f1c1885f4dbac?utm_source=yahoo&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=appeared_on\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Freddie Freeman makes Clayton Kershaw admission amid Los Angeles Dodgers legend not being at Spring Training;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Freddie Freeman makes Clayton Kershaw admission amid Los Angeles Dodgers legend not being at Spring Training<\/a> originally appeared on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us?utm_source=yahoo&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=appeared_on\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:The Sporting News;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">The Sporting News<\/a>. Add The Sporting News as a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Preferred Source by clicking here;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Preferred Source by clicking here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/mlb\/los-angeles-dodgers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Los Angeles Dodgers;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Los Angeles Dodgers<\/a>\u2019 clubhouse is adjusting to a new reality this spring as Clayton Kershaw isn\u2019t toeing the rubber to get ready for another season.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Following Kershaw\u2019s decision to retire from Major League Baseball, Dodgers star Freddie Freeman spoke about the impact of not seeing the longtime ace around camp.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt&#8217;s going to be hard. It&#8217;s like when I first got here, after one year, J.T. wasn&#8217;t here anymore. It&#8217;s weird seeing Dodgers legends not walk around the clubhouse anymore. What [Kershaw] meant to this organization, the game of baseball, it&#8217;s pretty cool he&#8217;s going to pitch for Team USA. I&#8217;m looking forward to watching him pitch.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut it&#8217;s definitely going to be weird not having number 22 walking around. But we&#8217;ll see him here at the ring ceremony,\u201d he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ocregister.com\/2026\/02\/12\/dodgers-expect-spring-training-without-clayton-kershaw-to-feel-strange\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:said;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">said<\/a>, per The Orange County Register.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>For more than a decade with the team, Kershaw was the face of the Dodgers&#8217; pitching staff, helping in championship runs and setting the tone inside the clubhouse.<\/p>\n<p>Kershaw wasn\u2019t what he once was over the past few years and dealt with injuries, but there\u2019s always value in having guys like that around. It wouldn\u2019t be surprising to see the Dodgers struggle at times without him there, as wild as that might sound to some.<\/p>\n<p>More MLB news:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Freddie Freeman makes Clayton Kershaw admission amid Los Angeles Dodgers legend not being at Spring Training originally appeared&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":582358,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2406],"tags":[5,1147,39,815,1165,4332,4333,774,57,3224,4331,19,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-582357","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles-dodgers","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-clayton-kershaw","10":"tag-dodgers","11":"tag-freddie-freeman","12":"tag-la","13":"tag-la-dodgers","14":"tag-ladodgers","15":"tag-los-angeles","16":"tag-los-angeles-dodgers","17":"tag-losangeles","18":"tag-losangelesdodgers","19":"tag-major-league-baseball","20":"tag-mlb"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116101412526362374","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=582357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582357\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/582358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=582357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=582357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=582357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}