{"id":654853,"date":"2026-03-31T17:41:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T17:41:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/654853\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T17:41:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T17:41:14","slug":"miguel-rojas-planning-to-follow-in-footsteps-of-clayton-kershaw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/654853\/","title":{"rendered":"Miguel Rojas Planning to Follow in Footsteps of Clayton Kershaw"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Los Angeles Dodgers said goodbye to Clayton Kershaw after the 2025 season, though he’s remaining with the organization in a special assist role<\/a>, and now are seeing Miguel Rojas through the final year of his career.<\/p>\n

Rojas is not the first-ballot Hall of Famer Kershaw will become, but he’s forever going to be part of Dodgers lore. That started in 2014 when he saved Kershaw’s no-hitter with an impressive play at third base, and continued in 2025 with a game-tying home run in Game 7 of the World Series.<\/p>\n

In addition to their careers overlapping, Rojas is now looking to take something of a lead from Kershaw.<\/p>\n

According to Maddie Lee<\/a> of the Los Angeles Times, the veteran infielder wants to enjoy his final season much in the same fashion as Kershaw did last year.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy wife and my kids call him Uncle Kersh because of the joy he had throughout the year,\u201d Rojas said. \u201cHe was really happy all year. He wasn\u2019t really caught up in numbers or stats. He was just enjoying his time. I really wish I can do a little bit of what he did last year. I hope I can enjoy it as much as he did last year.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo I\u2019m going to be Uncle Miggy this year.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kershaw did not announce his retirement plans until the middle of September, whereas Rojas got out in front of 2026 being the final year he will play. Rojas shared that news in conjuction with re-signing with the Dodgers on a one-year deal.<\/p>\n

He additionally revealed plans to join the Dodgers front office in a player development role<\/a> after retiring.<\/p>\n

“Learning a little bit from every area and seeing what I’m going to be good at. I want to be a coach, but maybe I\u2019m going to be good at something else,” Rojas said earlier this year. “I feel like that\u2019s something that I want to realize about myself.<\/p>\n

“Coach a little bit of everything, TV maybe, work in the front office a little bit with Andrew and company. And definitely learn a little bit more from Doc and what they value as a team, as a player.\u201d<\/p>\n

Miguel Rojas’ career<\/p>\n

Rojas signed with the Cincinnati Reds in 2005 as an international free agent out of Venezuela. He joined the Dodgers seven years later and made his MLB debut with the team in 2014.<\/p>\n

But that offseason saw Rojas included along with Dee Strange-Gordon, Dan Haren and cash in a trade with the Miami Marlins for Austin Barnes, Chris Hatcher, Andrew Heaney and Kik\u00e9 Hern\u00e1ndez. Rojas returned to the Dodgers in January 2023, as the Marlins traded him for Jacob Amaya.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Los Angeles Dodgers said goodbye to Clayton Kershaw after the 2025 season, though he’s remaining with the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":654854,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2406],"tags":[5,39,1165,4332,4333,774,57,3224,4331,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-654853","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-dodgers","10":"tag-la","11":"tag-la-dodgers","12":"tag-ladodgers","13":"tag-los-angeles","14":"tag-los-angeles-dodgers","15":"tag-losangeles","16":"tag-losangelesdodgers","17":"tag-mlb"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116325022980729649","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654853","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=654853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654853\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/654854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=654853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=654853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=654853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}