Hiroki Kuroda will make his final start of the season on Tuesday for the Dodgers against the Diamondbacks. Beyond Tuesday though, Kuroda is uncertain where he will end up pitching next season. There was speculation that Kuroda would return to Japan where he pitched 11 seasons with Hiroshima, but Kuroda has shot down the notion that he has already made up his mind.

“It’s amazing that something I don’t know, someone else knows. I’ll tell you one thing: I tend to go the other way. At this moment, I really don’t know. I might stay here, I might go to Japan. It’s 50-50.”

If Kuroda does decide to stay in the states, he will have many suitors as he has been successful in the majors posting a career era of 3.48 with a record of 41-46. Kuroda may decide to resign with the Dodgers as he has felt very comfortable living and pitching in Los Angeles which consists of a strong Asian community as evidence by his decision not to accept a trade at the recent trade deadline to Boston or New York.

Kuroda is finishing up a one-year deal where he earned $12mm while going 13-16 with a 3.17 era.

Information from Ken Gurnick of MLB.com was used in this article.

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