MLB / Players

Clayton Kershaw

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at6 ft 4 in · 225 lb

BornMarch 19, 1988 · Dallas, TX, USA

MLB debutMay 25, 2008

Seasons18 (2008–2025)

Los Angeles Dodgers 2008–2025

Percentile snapshot

2019 season — qualified pitchers

1.7

83.3

88.3

SHO

145

88.3

189

58.3

178.3

43.3

ERA

3.03

WHIP

1.043

K/9

9.54

68.3

FIP

3.82

FIP-

90.1

51.7

ERA+

139.9

81.7

sWAR

4.0

of 61 qualified 2019 pitchers (min 162 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

155.1

99.8

sWAR

76.3

99.8

ERA+ measured against qualified careers (1,000+ IP), 1,334 of them; sWAR measured against every career in history, 24,011 of them. Only era-adjusted career stats carry a percentile — a raw career total gets a rank instead, because pooling the 1890s with the 2020s is a choice, not a measurement.

Season by season

Batting

Season	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
2008	22	38	29	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	13	0	.069	.069	.069	.138	-84.7	-62.9	.062	0.7
2009	31	59	48	2	5	0	0	0	2	3	16	0	.104	.157	.104	.261	-37.1	-27.4	.132	3.9
2010	32	74	55	4	3	0	0	0	1	1	17	0	.055	.071	.055	.126	-83.4	-64.7	.062	4.0
2011	33	86	71	10	16	0	0	0	4	3	13	0	.225	.267	.225	.492	36.1	39.7	.233	6.6
2012	34	75	58	2	12	1	0	0	2	2	19	0	.207	.230	.224	.454	18.8	26.9	.207	5.9
2013	35	92	77	8	14	3	0	1	10	5	24	0	.182	.241	.260	.501	38.4	42.7	.233	7.8
2014	27	74	63	5	11	0	1	0	3	4	23	1	.175	.235	.206	.442	23.5	28.1	.211	6.5
2015	34	79	71	2	9	2	0	0	2	2	23	0	.127	.162	.155	.317	-22.3	-10.1	.149	6.8
2016	23	50	46	2	8	1	0	0	3	1	12	0	.174	.191	.196	.387	-3.5	6.0	.175	5.5
2017	27	59	49	6	9	1	0	0	2	4	13	0	.184	.245	.204	.449	21.4	22.9	.212	5.5
2018	27	57	46	1	11	2	0	0	7	7	11	0	.239	.340	.283	.622	81.3	74.5	.295	4.3
2019	29	65	49	1	5	1	0	0	1	1	16	0	.102	.120	.122	.242	-45.0	-35.0	.109	4.0
2020	10	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	2.0
2021	24	39	36	2	8	0	0	0	3	1	11	0	.222	.243	.222	.465	22.7	27.8	.211	2.3
2022	22	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	3.7
2023	24	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	4.1
2024	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.2
2025	23	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	2.3

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
2008	22	21	5	5	0	0	109	51	52	100	11	107.7	4.26	1.495	8.36	4.05	97.3	97.7	0.7
2009	31	30	8	8	0	0	119	53	91	185	7	171.0	2.79	1.228	9.74	3.04	75.8	143.7	3.9
2010	32	32	13	10	1	1	160	66	81	212	13	204.3	2.91	1.179	9.34	3.15	80.8	134.2	4.0
2011	33	33	21	5	5	2	174	59	54	248	15	233.3	2.28	.977	9.57	2.44	65.8	162.8	6.6
2012	33	33	14	9	2	2	170	64	63	229	16	227.7	2.53	1.023	9.05	2.93	77.2	150.2	5.9
2013	33	33	16	9	3	2	164	48	52	232	11	236.0	1.83	.915	8.85	2.36	66.1	195.1	7.8
2014	27	27	21	3	6	2	139	39	31	239	9	198.3	1.77	.857	10.85	1.78	50.5	199.2	6.5
2015	33	33	16	7	4	3	163	55	42	301	15	232.7	2.13	.881	11.64	2.02	54.1	175.5	6.8
2016	21	21	12	4	3	3	97	28	11	172	8	149.0	1.69	.725	10.39	1.84	45.8	237.4	5.5
2017	27	27	18	4	1	0	136	45	30	202	23	175.0	2.31	.949	10.39	3.09	74.4	179.5	5.5
2018	26	26	9	5	0	0	139	49	29	155	17	161.3	2.73	1.041	8.65	3.15	80.7	142.8	4.3
2019	29	28	16	5	0	0	145	60	41	189	28	178.3	3.03	1.043	9.54	3.82	90.1	139.9	4.0
2020	10	10	6	2	0	0	41	14	8	62	8	58.3	2.16	.840	9.57	3.34	76.4	202.1	2.0
2021	22	22	10	8	0	0	103	48	21	144	15	121.7	3.55	1.019	10.65	2.96	70.7	117.8	2.3
2022	22	22	12	3	0	0	96	32	23	137	10	126.3	2.28	.942	9.76	2.63	66.3	173.9	3.7
2023	24	24	13	5	0	0	100	36	40	137	19	131.7	2.46	1.063	9.36	4.03	93.5	175.3	4.1
2024	7	7	2	2	0	0	36	15	9	24	2	30.0	4.50	1.500	7.20	3.61	87.2	92.0	0.2
2025	23	22	11	2	0	0	102	42	35	84	8	112.7	3.36	1.216	6.71	3.64	84.9	127.7	2.3

sWAR is the season TOTAL for a player who both hit and pitched: the record book carries one figure per season, not a split, so the same number appears on both lines rather than being counted twice.

Career totals

Batting

464

847

698

113

RBI

211

.1619

OBP

.2049

SLG

.1848

OPS

.3897

Pitching

G (P)

455

451

87th-most career GS

223

74th-most career W

SHO

396th-most career SHO

2,855

162nd-most career IP

SO (P)

3,052

20th-most career SO (P)

BB allowed

713

366th-most career BB allowed

ERA

2.534

46th-lowest career ERA

WHIP

1.0177

5th-lowest career WHIP

K/9

9.62

18th-highest career K/9

A total is called out only where it ranks in the all-time top 500; hover a figure for its rank and the size of the field it was ranked in. Ranks are absolute facts and carry no percentile — the population for "career home runs" would be an editorial choice, and the rank is not.

Best games

Batting

Date	Game	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	TB
2015-06-01	LAD @ COL Gameday	4	1	3	1	0	0	1	4
2013-04-01	SF @ LAD Gameday	3	1	1	0	0	1	1	4
2013-05-31	LAD @ COL Gameday	3	0	2	1	0	0	2	3
2016-04-26	MIA @ LAD Gameday	2	0	2	1	0	0	1	3
2014-09-24	SF @ LAD Gameday	2	0	1	0	1	0	1	3

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
2014-06-18	COL @ LAD Gameday	9.0	0	0	0	0	15	0
2015-09-02	SF @ LAD Gameday	9.0	6	1	1	1	15	0
2016-05-01	SD @ LAD Gameday	9.0	3	0	0	0	14	0
2015-07-18	LAD @ WSH Gameday	8.0	3	0	0	0	14	0
2015-08-28	CHC @ LAD Gameday	8.0	3	1	1	1	14	1

Ranked from our own play-by-play game log, which begins in 1901 — not from the record book, so a career played outside it shows nothing here rather than a short list.

Honors

3× Cy Young Award1× Gold Glove1× Pitching Triple Crown1× Most Valuable Player11× All-Star

Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.