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Clayton Kershaw

Clayton Edward Kershaw (The Claw)

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

Born: March 19, 1988 in Dallas, TX
High School: Highland Park HS (Dallas, 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
Team: Dodgers 2008-2012
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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Fine Details  · Last updated Dec 13, 2012 1:17PM
All-Time Rank (among pitchers): #210. Camilo Pascual… #211. Jake Peavy… #212. Mike Hampton… #213. CLAYTON KERSHAW… #214. Charlie Ferguson… #215. Dean Chance… #216. Rick Rhoden… 

Standard Pitching

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Year Age Tm Lg W L W-L% ERA G GS GF CG SHO SV IP H R ER HR BB IBB SO HBP BK WP BF ERA+ WHIP H/9 HR/9 BB/9 SO/9 SO/BB Awards
2008 20 LAD NL 5 5 .500 4.26 22 21 0 0 0 0 107.2 109 51 51 11 52 3 100 1 0 7 470 98 1.495 9.1 0.9 4.3 8.4 1.92
2009 21 LAD NL 8 8 .500 2.79 31 30 1 0 0 0 171.0 119 55 53 7 91 4 185 1 2 11 701 143 1.228 6.3 0.4 4.8 9.7 2.03
2010 22 LAD NL 13 10 .565 2.91 32 32 0 1 1 0 204.1 160 73 66 13 81 9 212 7 2 5 848 133 1.179 7.0 0.6 3.6 9.3 2.62
2011 23 LAD NL 21 5 .808 2.28 33 33 0 5 2 0 233.1 174 66 59 15 54 2 248 3 1 5 912 161 0.977 6.7 0.6 2.1 9.6 4.59 AS,CYA-1,MVP-12,GG
2012 24 LAD NL 14 9 .609 2.53 33 33 0 2 2 0 227.2 170 70 64 16 63 5 229 5 2 6 901 150 1.023 6.7 0.6 2.5 9.1 3.63 AS,CYA-2,MVP-16
5 Yrs 61 37 .622 2.79 151 149 1 8 5 0 944.0 732 315 293 62 341 23 974 17 7 34 3832 138 1.137 7.0 0.6 3.3 9.3 2.86
162 Game Avg. 14 8 .622 2.79 34 34 0 2 1 0 214 166 71 66 14 77 5 221 4 2 8 869 138 1.137 7.0 0.6 3.3 9.3 2.86

Player Value--Pitchers

WAR Explained (v2.1): 8+ MVP, 5+ A-S, 2+ Starter, 0-2 Sub, < 0 Repl
Year Age Tm Lg IP G GS R RA9 RA9opp RA9def RA9role PPFp RA9avg RAA WAA gmLI WAAadj WAR RAR waaWL% 162WL% Salary Awards
2008 20 LAD NL 107.2 22 21 51 4.26 4.61 -0.07 0.18 96.5 4.69 6 0.6 1.6 -0.1 1.3 16 .528 .504 $
2009 21 LAD NL 171.0 31 30 55 2.89 4.57 0.07 0.17 96.3 4.49 30 3.4 .0 -0.1 4.5 47 .608 .521 $404,000
2010 22 LAD NL 204.1 32 32 73 3.22 4.44 -0.34 0.17 96.5 4.78 35 4.0 -0.1 5.4 54 .626 .525 $440,000
2011 23 LAD NL 233.1 33 33 66 2.55 4.13 0.02 0.15 96.5 4.12 39 4.8 -0.1 6.3 61 .644 .529 $500,000 AS,CYA-1,MVP-12,GG
2012 24 LAD NL 227.2 33 33 70 2.77 4.52 -0.03 0.17 94.5 4.46 40 4.7 -0.1 6.2 64 .641 .529 $7,500,000 AS,CYA-2,MVP-16
5 Seasons 944.0 151 149 315 3.00 4.42 -0.07 0.17 96.0 4.48 150 17.4 .8 -0.6 23.7 242 .615 .521 $8,844,000

Postseason Pitching

Postseason Gamelog
Year Age Tm Lg Series Rslt Opp W L W-L% ERA G GS GF CG SHO SV IP H R ER HR BB IBB SO HBP BK WP BF WHIP H/9 HR/9 BB/9 SO/9 SO/BB
2008 20 LAD NL NLCS L PHI 0 0 4.50 2 0 0 0 0 0 2.0 1 1 1 0 2 0 1 0 0 0 9 1.500 4.5 0.0 9.0 4.5 0.50
2009 21 LAD NL NLDS W STL 0 0 2.70 1 1 0 0 0 0 6.2 9 2 2 1 1 1 4 0 0 1 28 1.500 12.2 1.4 1.4 5.4 4.00
2009 21 LAD NL NLCS L PHI 0 1 .000 9.45 2 1 0 0 0 0 6.2 5 7 7 2 6 0 6 1 0 3 31 1.650 6.8 2.7 8.1 8.1 1.00
2 Yrs (3 Series) 0 1 .000 5.87 5 2 0 0 0 0 15.1 15 10 10 3 9 1 11 1 0 4 68 1.565 8.8 1.8 5.3 6.5 1.22
1 NLDS 0 0 2.70 1 1 0 0 0 0 6.2 9 2 2 1 1 1 4 0 0 1 28 1.500 12.2 1.4 1.4 5.4 4.00
2 NLCS 0 1 .000 8.31 4 1 0 0 0 0 8.2 6 8 8 2 8 0 7 1 0 3 40 1.615 6.2 2.1 8.3 7.3 0.88

Standard Batting

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Year Age Tm Lg G PA AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB CS BB SO BA OBP SLG OPS OPS+ TB GDP HBP SH SF IBB Pos Awards
2008 20 LAD NL 22 38 29 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 13 .069 .069 .069 .138 -63 2 0 0 9 0 0 1
2009 21 LAD NL 31 59 48 2 5 0 0 0 2 0 0 3 16 .104 .157 .104 .261 -28 5 1 0 8 0 0 1
2010 22 LAD NL 32 74 55 4 3 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 17 .055 .071 .055 .126 -65 3 3 0 18 0 0 1
2011 23 LAD NL 33 86 71 10 16 0 0 0 4 0 0 3 13 .225 .267 .225 .492 40 16 1 1 11 0 0 1 AS,CYA-1,MVP-12,GG
2012 24 LAD NL 34 75 58 2 12 1 0 0 2 0 0 2 19 .207 .230 .224 .454 27 13 2 0 14 1 0 1 AS,CYA-2,MVP-16
5 Yrs 152 332 261 19 38 1 0 0 9 0 0 9 78 .146 .176 .149 .326 -9 39 7 1 60 1 0
162 Game Avg. 162 354 278 20 41 1 0 0 10 0 0 10 83 .146 .176 .149 .326 -9 42 7 1 64 1 0

Player Value--Batters

WAR Explained (v2.1): 8+ MVP, 5+ A-S, 2+ Starter, 0-2 Sub, < 0 Repl
Year Age Tm Lg G PA Rbat Rbaser Rdp Rfield Rpos RAA WAA Rrep RAR WAR waaWL% 162WL% oWAR dWAR oRAR Salary Pos Awards
2008 20 LAD NL 22 38 -9 0 0 0 5 -3 -0.3 1 -2 -0.3 .486 .498 -0.3 0.0 -2 $ 1
2009 21 LAD NL 31 59 -9 -0 0 0 8 -1 -0.1 2 1 -0.1 .497 .499 -0.1 0.0 1 $404,000 1
2010 22 LAD NL 32 74 -13 0 -1 0 10 -4 -0.4 2 -2 -0.4 .487 .497 -0.4 0.0 -2 $440,000 1
2011 23 LAD NL 33 86 -6 0 0 0 11 6 0.6 2 8 0.6 .519 .504 0.6 0.0 8 $500,000 1 AS,CYA-1,MVP-12,GG
2012 24 LAD NL 34 75 -7 -0 0 0 11 4 0.4 2 6 0.4 .512 .502 0.4 0.0 6 $7,500,000 1 AS,CYA-2,MVP-16
5 Seasons 152 332 -45 0 1 0 45 2 0.2 9 11 0.2 .501 .500 0.2 0.0 11 $8,844,000

Postseason Batting

Postseason Gamelog
Year Age Tm Lg Series Opp Rslt G PA AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB CS BB SO BA OBP SLG OPS TB GDP HBP SH SF IBB
2008 20 LAD NL NLCS PHI L 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2009 21 LAD NL NLDS STL W 1 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000 .000 0 0 0 0 0 0
2009 21 LAD NL NLCS PHI L 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1.000 0 0 0 0 0 0
2 Yrs (3 Series) 5 3 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 .000 .333 .000 .333 0 0 0 0 0 0
1 NLDS 1 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000 .000 0 0 0 0 0 0
2 NLCS 4 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1.000 0 0 0 0 0 0

Standard Fielding

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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
5 Seasons P 151 149 8 944.0 181 32 147 2 7 .989 16 3 1.71 1.19 .954 1.76 1.74 41 38 48% 28% 37
5 Seasons TOT 151 149 8 944.0 181 32 147 2 7 .989 16 20 1.71 1.19 .954 1.76 1.74 41 38 48% 28% 37
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-1948 SB & CS data for catchers is estimated from catcher assists, games started and opposition stolen bases.
  • From 1948 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 1948 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 1918 on.
  • Innings played (like SB and CS) come from the retrosheet play-by-play data and should be considered mostly complete from 1948 to 1973 and complete from then on.
  • Stats (PO,A,G, etc) for LF-CF-RF positions (since 1918) 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 1948 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

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)

Wins Above Replacement† s c a p y
2011 NL  6.9 (5th)
2012 NL  6.6 (6th)

WAR for Pitchers† s c a p y
2010 NL  5.4 (7th)
2011 NL  6.3 (3rd)
2012 NL  6.2 (1st)
Active  23.7 (31st)

Earned Run Average s c a p y
2009 NL  2.79 (5th)
2010 NL  2.91 (9th)
2011 NL  2.28 (1st)
2012 NL  2.53 (1st)

Wins s c a p y
2011 NL  21 (1st)

Win-Loss % s c a p y
2011 NL  .808 (2nd)

Walks & Hits per IP s c a p y
2011 NL  0.977 (1st)
2012 NL  1.023 (1st)

Hits per 9 IP s c a p y
2009 NL  6.263 (1st)
2010 NL  7.047 (4th)
2011 NL  6.711 (1st)
2012 NL  6.720 (1st)

Strikeouts per 9 IP s c a p y
2009 NL  9.737 (5th)
2010 NL  9.338 (4th)
2011 NL  9.566 (2nd)
2012 NL  9.053 (5th)

Innings Pitched s c a p y
2011 NL  233.3 (3rd)
2012 NL  227.7 (2nd)

Strikeouts s c a p y
2010 NL  212 (5th)
2011 NL  248 (1st)
2012 NL  229 (2nd)

Games Started s c a p y
2011 NL  33 (4th)
2012 NL  33 (1st)

Complete Games s c a p y
2011 NL  5 (3rd)
2012 NL  2 (4th)

Shutouts s c a p y
2010 NL  1 (8th)
2011 NL  2 (2nd)
2012 NL  2 (2nd)
Active  5 (30th)

Bases on Balls s c a p y
2009 NL  91 (3rd)
2010 NL  81 (7th)

Strikeouts / Base On Balls s c a p y
2011 NL  4.593 (3rd)
2012 NL  3.635 (10th)

Home Runs per 9 IP s c a p y
2009 NL  0.368 (2nd)
2010 NL  0.573 (7th)
2011 NL  0.579 (5th)
2012 NL  0.633 (6th)

Wild Pitches s c a p y
2009 NL  11 (6th)

Batters Faced s c a p y
2011 NL  912 (6th)
2012 NL  901 (3rd)

Adjusted ERA+ s c a p y
2009 NL  143 (10th)
2010 NL  133 (9th)
2011 NL  161 (2nd)
2012 NL  150 (2nd)

Adj. Pitching Runs s c a p y
2009 NL  25 (10th)
2010 NL  22 (9th)
2011 NL  37 (3rd)
2012 NL  33 (2nd)
Active  119 (21st)
Career  119 (183rd)

Adj. Pitching Wins s c a p y
2010 NL  2.4 (10th)
2011 NL  4.1 (3rd)
2012 NL  3.6 (2nd)
Active  12.9 (19th)
Career  12.9 (180th)

Base-Out Runs Saved (RE24)† s c a p y
2009 NL  28.94 (10th)
2010 NL  25.80 (10th)
2011 NL  38.00 (3rd)
2012 NL  39.07 (1st)
Active  132.93 (22nd)
Career  132.93 (98th)

Win Probability Added (WPA)† s c a p y
2009 NL  3.1 (8th)
2010 NL  3.5 (10th)
2011 NL  3.8 (8th)
2012 NL  3.7 (2nd)
Active  14.6 (23rd)
Career  14.6 (113th)

Sit. Wins Saved (WPA/LI)† s c a p y
2009 NL  3.0 (4th)
2010 NL  3.0 (6th)
2011 NL  4.6 (1st)
2012 NL  4.1 (1st)
Active  14.6 (16th)
Career  14.6 (79th)

Base-Out Wins Saved (REW)† s c a p y
2009 NL  3.1 (9th)
2011 NL  4.4 (3rd)
2012 NL  4.4 (1st)
Active  14.8 (20th)
Career  14.8 (92nd)

Sacrifice Hits s c a p y
2010 NL  18 (1st)
2011 NL  11 (7th)
2012 NL  14 (3rd)
Active  60 (25th)

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

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

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

                           

† Statistics like WPA, REW and RE24 are computed from play-by-play data which is only complete from 1974 to the present. From 1948-1973, the data is incomplete, though for most seasons only less than 20 games per season total are missing. Please see our page on data coverage for a full view of the data used to create these leaderboards.

Hall Of Fame Statistics

Player rank in (·)

Black InkPitching - 23 (79), Average HOFer ≈ 40
Gray InkPitching - 58 (436), Average HOFer ≈ 185
Hall of Fame MonitorPitching - 36 (380), Likely HOFer ≈ 100
Hall of Fame StandardsPitching - 28 (166), Average HOFer ≈ 50
JAWS Starting Pitcher (324th), 23.9 career WAR/23.9 7yr-peak WAR/23.9 JAWS
Average HOF P (out of 58) = 67.9 career WAR/47.7 7yr-peak WAR/57.8 JAWS

Similarity Scores

Explanation of Similarity Scores
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  8. Yovani Gallardo (928)
  9. Bob Wicker (927)
  10. Nick Cullop (927)
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  7. John Candelaria (931)
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Transactions

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Salaries

Salaries may not be complete (especially pre-1985) and may not include some earned bonuses
Year Age Team Salary Sources Notes
200921Los Angeles Dodgers$404,000
201022Los Angeles Dodgers$440,000
201123Los Angeles Dodgers$500,000
201224Los Angeles Dodgers$7,500,000contracts
201325Los Angeles Dodgers$11,000,000
Earliest Arb Eligible: 2014, Earliest Free Agent: 2015
Career to date (may be incomplete)$8,844,000Does not include future salaries
Salary Data (about) courtesy Doug Pappas, and the Society for American Baseball Research.
Salaries for mid-season call-ups or traded players may not be shown.

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