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Clayton Kershaw

Clayton Edward Kershaw (The Claw) (twitter: @ClaytonKersh22)

Position: Pitcher
Bats: Left, Throws: Left
Height: 6' 3", Weight: 220 lb.

Born: March 19, 1988 in Dallas, TX
High Schools: Highland Park HS (Dallas, TX), Highland Park HS (Highland Park, TX)
Drafted by the Los Angeles Dodgers in the 1st round (7th pick) of the 2006 amateur draft.
Signed June 20, 2006. (All Transactions)
Debut: May 25, 2008 (Age 20)
Team: Dodgers 2008-2013
2013 Contract Status: 2nd-Year Arb Eligible, 2 yrs/$19M (12-13) (details) [*]
Service Time (01/2013): 4.105, Arb Eligible: 2014, Free Agent: 2015 [*],
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All-Star

Standard Fielding

Year Tm Lg Age Pos G GS CG Inn Ch PO A E DP Fld% Rdrs Rdrs/yr RF/9 RF/G lgFld% lgRF9 lgRFG SB CS CS% lgCS% PO Awards
2008 LAD NL 20 P 22 21 0 107.2 20 1 18 1 2 .950 1 2 1.59 0.86 .959 1.73 1.72 5 2 29% 27% 2
2009 LAD NL 21 P 31 30 0 171.0 27 8 19 0 2 1.000 1 1 1.42 0.87 .955 1.72 1.70 6 7 54% 29% 7
2010 LAD NL 22 P 32 32 1 204.1 36 5 30 1 0 .972 3 3 1.54 1.09 .954 1.73 1.72 8 8 50% 29% 8
2011 LAD NL 23 P 33 33 5 233.1 47 9 38 0 2 1.000 5 4 1.81 1.42 .955 1.80 1.79 14 9 39% 28% 9 AS,CYA-1,MVP-12,GG
2012 LAD NL 24 P 33 33 2 227.2 51 9 42 0 1 1.000 6 5 2.02 1.55 .950 1.77 1.75 8 12 60% 27% 11 AS,CYA-2,MVP-16
2013 LAD NL 25 P 9 9 1 64.1 15 2 12 1 0 .933 3 9 1.96 1.56 .965 1.72 1.71 0 3 100% 29% 3
6 Seasons P 160 158 9 1008.1 196 34 159 3 7 .985 19 3 1.72 1.21 .955 1.75 1.74 41 41 50% 28% 40
6 Seasons TOT 160 158 9 1008.1 196 34 159 3 7 .985 19 22 1.72 1.21 .955 1.75 1.74 41 41 50% 28% 40
Note: Fielding stats are a combination of official records and RetroSheet records. Both are likely to have substantial errors and will not match perfectly.
View Complete Notes on Fielding Data
Leagues historically made no effort to balance team, league, and player fielding stats. Since 1990 or so, computers have made this feasible, but prior to that there are hundreds or thousands of discrepancies each year in games played (even whether a player played a position), putouts, assists, double plays and errors.
  • Pre-1945 SB & CS data for catchers is estimated from catcher assists, games started and opposition stolen bases.
  • From 1945 on SB, CS, Pickoff, & WP data for catchers and pitchers is taken from play-by-play accounts in the retrosheet files. There are several hundred games without pbp from 1945 to 1973 and for those we may not have any data.
  • CG & GS come from the retrosheet data and should be complete and pretty accurate from 1916 on.
  • Innings played (like SB and CS) come from the retrosheet play-by-play data and should be considered mostly complete from 1945 to 1973 and complete from then on.
  • Stats (PO,A,G, etc) for LF-CF-RF positions (since 1916) is taken from play-by-play or box score data as available.
  • Stats (PO,A,G,etc) for C,P,1B,2B,3B,SS,OF positions is taken from the official reported totals and may have been corrected at various times since their publication.
  • For detailed information on which games retrosheet is missing play-by-play from 1945 to 1973, please see their most wanted games list
  • For detailed information on the availability of data on this site by year, see our data coverage page

Sabermetric Fielding

Year Tm Lg Age Pos Rtot Rtot/yr Rtz Rtzhm Rtzrd Rdp Rof Rctch Rdrs Rdrs/yr Rpm Rdp Rbnt Rof Rhr RerC RsbC RsbP
2008 LAD NL 20 P 1 2 0 1 0
2009 LAD NL 21 P 1 1 -2 0 0 3
2010 LAD NL 22 P 3 3 0 0 1 3
2011 LAD NL 23 P 5 4 1 0 1 3
2012 LAD NL 24 P 6 5 1 0 5
2013 LAD NL 25 P 0 3 9 1 0 2
6 Seasons P 0 19 3 1 0 3 16
6 Seasons TOT 0 19 22 1 0 3 16

Appearances

Year Tm Lg Age G GS Batting Defense P C 1B 2B 3B SS LF CF RF OF DH PH PR
2008 LAD NL 20 22 21 21 22 22 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2009 LAD NL 21 31 30 30 31 31 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2010 LAD NL 22 32 32 31 32 32 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2011 LAD NL 23 33 33 32 33 33 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2012 LAD NL 24 34 33 32 33 33 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
2013 LAD NL 25 10 9 10 9 9 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
6 Seasons 162 158 156 160 160 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0
Appearances table is calculated solely from full RetroSheet play-by-play data available from 1973 on. A combination of RetroSheet (starting with the 1916 season) and non-RetroSheet data is used for other seasons.

Advanced Fielding -- P*

Putouts Assists Errors Double Plays
Year Tm Lg Age PA BIP% GBIP% Fld F2O% FC Tot Cgt 31 Tot 1B 2B Tot Cch Fld Thr ROE Tot 163 GB LD bFld bF2O%
2008 LAD NL 20 470 71% 32% 18 89% 0 1 0 0 18 15 1 1 0 0 1 0 2 0 1 1 5 80%
2009 LAD NL 21 701 64% 23% 21 86% 1 8 4 1 19 11 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 2 0 11 91%
2010 LAD NL 22 848 67% 26% 27 85% 0 5 1 3 30 19 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 8 100%
2011 LAD NL 23 912 70% 28% 38 84% 1 9 3 4 38 22 3 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 1 1 15 87%
2012 LAD NL 24 901 70% 31% 37 89% 1 9 1 6 42 25 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 10 100%
2013 LAD NL 25 242 69% 29% 13 69% 1 2 0 2 12 7 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 4 75%
6 Seasons 4074 69% 28% 154 85% 4 34 9 16 159 99 6 3 1 1 1 1 7 2 5 2 53 91%
MLB Averages 76% 31% 85% 80%

* Many Detailed Statistics are based on play-by-play accounts accumulated by RetroSheet. These totals may be incomplete (3.6% of all plays from 1916 to 1973 are missing or have incomplete accounts, click link for year and team summary) for some players prior to 1974 and even complete seasons may not match the official totals due to errors in both the official totals and the play-by-play accounts. Pre-1954 seasons have a substantial numbers of games missing play-by-play accounts and should be viewed as essentially incomplete.

Appearances on Leader Boards, Awards, and Honors

Stats are Year-Value-Rank · Glossary

All-Star Games
2011 *
2012 *

Awards (yr lg award)
2011 NL Cy Young
2011 NL pitching_title
2011 NL Triple Crown
2011 NL TSN Pitcher of the Year
2012 NL pitching_title
2012 ML Roberto Clemente Award
2012 ML Roberto Clemente Award

MVP (yr lg (rk, shr))
2011 NL (12, 6%)
2012 NL (16, 3%)
0.09 Career Shares (951st)

Cy Young (yr lg (rk, shr))
2011 NL (1, 92%)
2012 NL (2, 43%)
1 Cy Young
1.35 Career Shares (37th)

Gold Gloves
2011 NL (P)

Assists as P s c a p y
2011 NL  38 (5th)
2012 NL  42 (5th)

Fielding % as P s c a p y
2009 NL  1.000 (1st)
2011 NL  1.000 (1st)
2012 NL  1.000 (1st)

Youngest s c a p y
2008 NL  born 1988-03-19 (1st)
2008 NL  born 1988-03-19 (1st)
2009 NL  born 1988-03-19 (3rd)
2009 NL  born 1988-03-19 (3rd)

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