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Andrew Friedman says Dodgers 'really want' to work things out with Clayton Kershaw

LOS ANGELES — The Texas Rangers are expected to aggressively pursue Clayton Kershaw this winter and can offer the free-agent left-hander something the Dodgers can't — a chance for the three-time Cy Young Award winner to play near his Dallas-area home and not have to uproot his family every spring. The Dodgers, despite not extending an $18.4 million qualifying offer to the franchise icon, do ...

LOS ANGELES — The Texas Rangers are expected to aggressively pursue Clayton Kershaw this winter and can offer the free-agent left-hander something the Dodgers can't — a chance for the three-time Cy Young Award winner to play near his Dallas-area home and not have to uproot his family every spring.

The Dodgers, despite not extending an $18.4 million qualifying offer to the franchise icon, do not intend to go down without a fight.

"We really want Kersh to come back — not only because of what he's meant to us looking back, but what he'll mean for us going forward," Andrew Friedman, the team's president of baseball operations,

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