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Jurado waved at a mound of mementos around her dining room table gifted by volunteers and voters — scrapbooks, posters, artwork, photo collages — mixed in among thank-you cards that need to be mailed out.

A young man climbed on to the mound of rubble.

Though the Dodgers’ slugger is expected to be in the lineup for the start of the team’s 2025 season — which will kick off with two games in Japan against the Chicago Cubs at the Tokyo Dome — the two-way star was already uncertain to return to the mound by then after his Tommy John revision surgery last year.

“Every time he took the mound, he did so for his faith, his family, his team and his country, and he held that burden from the first time he pitched in the major leagues until the last time,” he said.

He said Valenzuela was known and honored for the person that he was on the mound, but also for so much more.