Clayton Kershaw Opposing Batting Average on Balls in Play

Clayton Kershaw Career Opposing Batting Average on Balls in Play Overview

Clayton Kershaw's Opposing Batting Average on Balls in Play was 0.268 for his 15-year Major League Baseball career. 2020 was his best season when his Opposing Batting Average on Balls in Play was 0.223 and his worst season was 2008 when his Opposing Batting Average on Balls in Play was 0.318. Clayton Kershaw is middlin' tier compared to similar player cohorts career totals, not clearly beating or being beat by USA (0.28504703511729), Millenial (0.29092410913847), Y (0.2691168881417), mlb (0.2854780070399), and SP (0.28494401387655) player career averages. See the charts and graphs below that visualize this information in more detail.

Batting average on balls in play (BABIP) is a metric designed to measure the number of balls put in play by a player or team over a defined period resulted in a hit. Generally, for Opposing Batting Average on Balls in Play, lower is better. (Source)

Clayton Kershaw Lifetime Opposing Batting Average on Balls in Play

Stats similar to Opposing Batting Average on Balls in Play for Clayton Kershaw

	Clayton Kershaw Opposing Batting Average on Balls in Play
Career	0.268
Season Avg.	0.267
162 Game Avg.	0.268
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Clayton Kershaw Opposing Batting Average on Balls in Play By Year Line Chart

This line chart shows Clayton Kershaw's yearly Opposing Batting Average on Balls in Play for each season of his Major League Baseball career. Also included, for comparison, are yearly player averages for MLB, Hall of Fame players, SP, and players from their country of birth. For these groups, averages are calculated for each group's performance for the defined year.

Clayton Kershaw Opposing Batting Average on Balls in Play By Year Change

This waterfall chart attempts to show how Clayton Kershaw's career Opposing Batting Average on Balls in Play changed per season. This data is cumulative for each season, each column represents the career Opposing Batting Average on Balls in Play Clayton Kershaw had at that season in his career.

Clayton Kershaw Opposing Batting Average on Balls in Play By Year Box Chart

This chart attempts to draw comparisons between Clayton Kershaw and related player groups by summarizing Opposing Batting Average on Balls in Play for each season played by Clayton Kershaw. The box represents the middle 50% of the data for each player with the line in the box being the median value. The whiskers represent the ranges for the top and bottom 25% of the data. Review the spread and medians to draw your conclusions!

Clayton Kershaw Opposing Batting Average on Balls in Play Per Season Stats Table

This table shows Clayton Kershaw Opposing Batting Average on Balls in Play stats per season for his full MLB career with the aggregations’ sum, average, minimum, maximum, and median. Also included, for comparison, are season player averages for MLB, Hall of Fame players, SP, and players from their country of birth. The comparisons are calculated for each group for each year of Clayton Kershaw career.

Note: "—" indicate there were no players for comparison for a specific year. Most commonly this happens for the hall of fame group where there may not have been a hall of famer playing that year.