LOS ANGELES -- Injured Dodgers pitcher Josh Beckett is considering retirement and is expected to address his future before Friday's game against the D-backs. Beckett needs surgery to repair torn a labrum and a lesion in his left hip, which would require a four-month rehabilitation. Earlier this week, manager Don Mattingly said Beckett would not pitch again this year.
Beckett has hinted at retirement this season, especially since his hip flared up in a baserunning mishap in Colorado on July 6. He went on the disabled list, returned to make three more painful starts, then was disabled again on Aug. 4. He's a high-mileage 34-year-old, having thrown 2,051 innings in 14 big league seasons.
Beckett made 20 starts this year and is 6-6 with a 2.88 ERA, and he tossed a no-hitter on May 25, putting him in the conversation for the National League Comeback Player of the Year Award. He missed most of the 2013 season with thoracic outlet syndrome that required surgery to remove a rib that was compressing a nerve near his neck.
Beckett is a three-time All-Star, was the World Series MVP Award winner for the Marlins in 2003 and an American League Cy Young Award runner-up in '07, when he went 20-7 and won a World Series with the Red Sox.
Beckett came to the Dodgers in the 2012 blockbuster deal with Boston, along with Carl Crawford, Adrian Gonzalez and Nick Punto.
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