Clayton Kershaw Batters Faced

Clayton Kershaw Career Batters Faced Overview

During Clayton Kershaw's 15-year Major League Baseball career, he had a lifetime total of 10160 batters faced, an average of 677 batters faced per season. 2011 was his best season with 912 batters faced and his worst season was 2020 when he had 221 batters faced. Clayton Kershaw is middlin' tier compared to similar player cohorts career totals, not clearly beating or being beat by USA (2595.9271853631), Millenial (1412.8341044283), mlb (2506.629423901), SP (3599.0649970185), and Y (14857.652777778) player career averages. See the charts and graphs below that visualize this information in more detail.

Batters faced is the number of hitters that have a plate appearance against a pitcher or team's pitchers over a given period of time. Generally, for Batters Faced, higher is better. (Source)

Clayton Kershaw Lifetime Batters Faced and Similar Stats

Stats similar to Batters Faced for Clayton Kershaw

	Clayton Kershaw Batters Faced	Clayton Kershaw Batters Faced Per 9 Innings
Career	10160	35.43
Season Avg.	677	35.49
162 Game Avg.	1723	35.43
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Clayton Kershaw Batters Faced By Year Line Chart

This line chart shows Clayton Kershaw's yearly Batters Faced 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 Cumulative Batters Faced by Year

This line chart attempts to show show how Clayton Kershaw's career Batters Faced progressed by year. Each year on the chart represents Clayton Kershaw's career Batters Faced at the end of that season.

Clayton Kershaw Batters Faced By Year Box Chart

This chart attempts to draw comparisons between Clayton Kershaw and related player groups by summarizing Batters Faced 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 Batters Faced Per Season Stats Table

This table shows Clayton Kershaw Batters Faced 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.