Los Angeles Dodgers legend and future Hall of Famer Clayton Kershaw is hanging up the cleats after the 2025 season.

On Thursday afternoon, the Dodgers announced via X/Twitter that Clayton Kershaw will retire after this season. Kershaw will make his final regular-season home start on Friday night against the San Francisco Giants (10:10 p.m. EST).

Retirement speculation had surrounded the past four years. Taking it year by year, Kershaw signed one-year extensions with the Dodgers in 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025.

But after an iconic career that produced three NL Cy Young Awards, 11 All-Star Game selections, two World Series Championships, over 3,000 strikeouts and 222 wins (and counting) Clayton Kershaw has decided to retire.

Per Baseball Reference, Kershaw sits 20th in career strikeouts (3,

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