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Kershaw Sent Back To AA

July 2, 2008 at 4:15 pm | In Clayton Kershaw |

He just couldn’t lay off the booze, so back to AA for him… oh wait, double A.

According to Tony Jackson, phenom Clayton Kershaw has been sent back down to the Dodgers AA affiliate, Jacksonville, to make room for Hiroki Kuroda, who makes his first start off the DL in about an hour. According to Jackson, Kershaw was most surprised:

I was as surprised as you undoubtedly are, but no one was more surprised that Kershaw himself. Joe Torre stressed, both to Clayton and to the media, that the move was more about needing a roster spot for Hiroki Kuroda, who is coming off the DL and starting tonight, than it was about the way Clayton has pitched. But as Clayton himself said, “Any way you spin it, I’m getting sent down. They can say they didn’t have enough room, but they (brought) me up when they didn’t have enough room, because all those (pitchers) were healthy then.”

I would make an assessment of his time in L.A., but my partner in crime, MSTI, did a very good job of that on the post below and Jon from Dodger Thoughts also has a good read on it. In short, Kershaw has a lot to be proud of and should no doubt hold his head up high. He could have easily embarrassed himself, but he proved to be a capable pitcher. For a person who just turned 20 years old right before the season started, that’s extremely impressive and once he works on the things such as his location and the like… watch out. The kid is for real.

See ya back in a couple of months, kid.

- Vin

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He sounds disappointed because the Dodgers apparently blindsided him. Plus, the Dodgers have said all along that “he would be up here for the whole year”, now they go back on it in a sudden manner.
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And people wonder why the Dodgers are a bad team. Just gotta go up the management chain to find the problem.

Comment by kensai — July 2, 2008 #
He shouldn’t have been told he’d be up all year, then. I think (obviously) that sending him back was the right move.

Comment by Mike Scioscia's tragic illness — July 2, 2008 #
Well, obviously he shouldn’t have been told that. Unfortunately, he was, and the Dodgers apparently have no idea how to communicate with players or something. Seriously sad. :o

Comment by kensai — July 3, 2008 #