Kershaw missed two months last season with back issues and most of the second half of 2021 with elbow issues. He has been limited to 22 starts each over the past two seasons, throwing fewer than 126 innings each year.
“It’s a process that everyone has to go through,” said Tony Reagins, MLB’s director of baseball development and general manager of Team USA. “We just couldn’t get insurance in this case.”
By JamesMcGhee