{"id":647662,"date":"2026-03-28T00:38:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T00:38:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/647662\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T00:38:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T00:38:15","slug":"dodgers-hire-clayton-kershaw-as-special-assistant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/647662\/","title":{"rendered":"Dodgers Hire Clayton Kershaw As Special Assistant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Clayton Kershaw is back with the Dodgers in a non-playing role. The club hired the future Hall of Famer as a special assistant in their front office, reports <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/FabianArdaya\/status\/2037675711516037604\" rel=\"nofollow\">Fabian Ardaya of The Athletic<\/a>. Kershaw retired at the end of the 2025 season, though he was included on the Team USA roster for this spring\u2019s World Baseball Classic. That was largely symbolic, as he didn\u2019t make an appearance and was subbed off the roster before the semifinals.<\/p>\n<p>Kershaw tells <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SonjaMChen\/status\/2037679620267672030\" rel=\"nofollow\">Sonja Chen of MLB.com<\/a> he\u2019ll \u201cbe involved\u201d with the organization. Special assistant roles around the league vary. Some of these hirings are ceremonial or public relations moves, while others involve working with MLB players and\/or prospects during Spring Training and throughout the season.<\/p>\n<p>In either case, it\u2019s fitting that Kershaw remains a Dodger in some capacity. He spent all of his legendary career in Dodger blue, posting a 2.53 ERA in a little under 3000 innings. Kershaw won the NL MVP in 2014 and is still the most recent pitcher to do so. He won five ERA titles, three Cy Young awards, and three championships.<\/p>\n<p>Kershaw is in L.A. this weekend for the season-opening series against the Diamondbacks. He was part of NBC\u2019s broadcast team for last night\u2019s opener. He\u2019s back at Dodger Stadium tonight as part of the World Series ring ceremony.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Clayton Kershaw is back with the Dodgers in a non-playing role. The club hired the future Hall of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":647663,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2290],"tags":[5,1147],"class_list":{"0":"post-647662","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-baseball","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-clayton-kershaw"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116304014404830862","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647662","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=647662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647662\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/647663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=647662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=647662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=647662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}