Clayton Kershaw ERA

Clayton Kershaw Career ERA Overview

Clayton Kershaw is a professional baseball pitcher who has played for the Los Angeles Dodgers since 2008. He is widely regarded as one of the best pitchers in the game today and has won numerous awards and accolades throughout his career. One of the statistics that is often used to evaluate the effectiveness of a pitcher is Earned Run Average (ERA).

ERA represents the average number of earned runs a pitcher allows per nine innings pitched. The lower the ERA, the more effective the pitcher is at preventing runs from scoring. Kershaw has been one of the best pitchers in the game in terms of ERA throughout his career.

As of the end of the 2021 season, Kershaw has a career ERA of 2.48, which is an outstanding number. He has led the National League in ERA five times, including a stretch from 2011 to 2014 where he had the lowest ERA in the NL for four consecutive seasons. In 2014, Kershaw had a career-best ERA of 1.77, which is one of the lowest single-season ERAs in modern baseball history.

Kershaw's success in terms of ERA can be attributed to a number of factors, including his outstanding control and ability to strike batters out. He has averaged over nine strikeouts per nine innings pitched throughout his career and has a career WHIP (walks and hits per inning pitched) of 1.00, which is an excellent number.

Overall, Clayton Kershaw's ERA is a testament to his skills as a pitcher and his ability to prevent runs from scoring. His consistency and dominance in terms of ERA over the course of his career have established him as one of the greatest pitchers in baseball history.

Earned run average (ERA) is a metric that shows how many earned runs on average, a pitcher or team's pitcher, gives up over the course of nine innings. It is calculated by dividing earned runs by innings pitched then multiplying the result by 9. Generally, for ERA, lower is better. (Source)

Clayton Kershaw Lifetime ERA and Similar Stats

Stats similar to ERA for Clayton Kershaw

	Clayton Kershaw ERA	Clayton Kershaw Component ERA	Clayton Kershaw Defense Independent ERA
Career	2.48	2.18	2.64
Season Avg.	2.55	2.27	2.72
162 Game Avg.	2.48	2.18	2.64
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Clayton Kershaw ERA By Year Line Chart

This line chart shows Clayton Kershaw's yearly ERA 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 ERA By Year Change

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

Clayton Kershaw ERA By Year Box Chart

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

This table shows Clayton Kershaw ERA 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.