Clayton Kershaw has a player option following this season
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http://www.diamondbacksfanproshop.com/authentic-zack-greinke-jersey , the oddsmakers wouldn’t be too surprised if he pulled a John Tavares and headed home for Texas. I’m not sure why he’d want to leave an annual contender without having won a World Series (yet) and go to a team that will struggle to make the playoffs, so I think the Astros would probably be the better bet of those two 鈥?but still not a great one. They’ll have one of the best rotations in the league even if Keuchel heads elsewhere next season, so I’m not sure that they’d want to hand Kershaw a massive contract. They have yet to give most of their young stars contract extensions, so I feel this would be an unwise allocation of money.Download The Action Network App to get real-time MLB odds and track all of your baseball bets.A place where money is generally never an issue is New York. If Kershaw becomes a free agent, you can bet that he’ll be on the Yankees’ radar. Their offense and bullpen look pretty set for the immediate future, but starting pitching depth is one of their weaknesses.Considering the high payout, “field” isn’t a bad option if you do think he’s leaving. Personally, I think he’ll be back with the Dodgers, and I would take the +130, but at +815, field ain’t bad. The B- and C- rosters laid down the smack on Cleveland this afternoon."Spring record: 1-1. Change on 2018: 0. Five-inning record: 1-0-1.Usually, it’s said that pitchers are a little bit ahead of hitters at the beginning of spring training, because they’ve already been in camp slightly longer. There wasn’t much evidence of that around spring training today. Of the sixteen games
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