Dodgers' Clayton Kershaw Named to 2025 MLB All-Star Roster as 'Legend Pick'

Clayton Kershaw was selected to his 11th All-Star Game this year.

The star pitcher for the Los Angeles Dodgers earned an All-Star bid as the "Legend Pick" and will have the chance to pitch for the NL All-Star Team. He was selected by MLB commissioner Rob Manfred.

The honor for Kershaw comes less than a week after he picked up his 3,000th career strikeout, something just 20 other pitchers in MLB history have done. He's one of just three active pitchers to have reached 3,000 strikeouts, the others being Max Scherzer and Justin Verlander.

This year could end up being the last All-Star Game Kershaw makes, but it's unclear what his plans are beyond the 2025 season.

He said before the start of the season that he decided not to retire after 2024 because it "didn't feel like it was the right time."

"I don't want to be, 'I just can't do it hurt,' you know? Hopefully I can walk out on my own terms, whenever that is," Kershaw said in February, per ESPN's Alden Gonzalez. "But it just didn't feel like it was the right time, even though we won. Being on the shelf for that wasn't the way that I had scripted it out. Still super thankful to be a part of it last year and get to see everything, but I want to be out there when it happens."

Kershaw, 37, made just seven starts because of injuries last season, but he's been able to stay on the mound this year. He shook off a rough start to the 2025 campaign and now has a 4-0 record with a 3.43 ERA in nine starts.

Kershaw might not be the same pitcher he was years ago, but he can still hold his own on the mound, and he'll look to do that at the All-Star Game later this month.