When Clayton Kershaw next takes the mound, he will do so as a different man. He has won the World Series. He has removed his name from the list of best players never to win a title. He has rewritten the narrative that surrounded him, the one that said he could not pitch in the postseason.
But that’s not what the people closest to him will notice. For the first time in more than a decade, he will be wearing a new glove.
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In 2008, his rookie year, Kershaw used a glove with wide-set webbing.