They are both tall, left-handed pitchers. They both wore Dodger blue throughout their careers, one still going strong. They have both won Cy Young awards, MVP awards, ERA titles, Triple Crowns, and have appeared in numerous All-Star games.
A Hall-of-Famer and a future Hall-of-Famer. But if you could choose only one pitcher to lead your rotation for an entire season, who would you take?
Before we make the case for each pitcher, it’s amazing to list the similarities.
While Kershaw still has time to add to his resume, at 32 years of age, he has now pitched in the same number of seasons that Koufax pitched with the Dodgers, twelve.